as in accuracy
agreement with fact or reality
there is no truth to the rumor that the couple is getting a divorce
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Recent Examples of truth
Honor your truth so your path opens naturally.
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Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
As powerful forces close in, all three are forced to confront an explosive truth – one that could rewrite history, and that others will kill to keep hidden.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
Without that, trust in the legal system erodes, and survivors are left feeling that the full truth and full accountability may never come.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
There’s some truth to that pattern, said Jonathan Rosa, a linguistic anthropologist and associate professor at Stanford University.
—Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2026
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Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
As powerful forces close in, all three are forced to confront an explosive truth – one that could rewrite history, and that others will kill to keep hidden.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
Without that, trust in the legal system erodes, and survivors are left feeling that the full truth and full accountability may never come.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
There’s some truth to that pattern, said Jonathan Rosa, a linguistic anthropologist and associate professor at Stanford University.
—Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 17 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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The National Park Service routinely updates exhibits across the park system to ensure historical accuracy and completeness.—
Laura Fay,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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This requires clinicians to evaluate for accuracy and voice—patients like hearing back from their clinician in their own voice.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Brands need to choose authenticity over showmanship and insight over ornament.—
Yiling Pan,
Vogue,
17 Feb. 2026
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Although the authenticity of the notes still has not been verified, the loss of any possible line of communication is not a good sign.—
Elizabeth Hartfield,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Some people thought the character was too much, but Danica managed to make her just that without losing the truthfulness, and the ending wouldn’t have worked without that.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This new discipline borrowed features from philology and belles lettres—period specialization and close reading, respectively—but abjured their emphasis on facticity and appreciation in favor of a new goal: interpretation.—
Evan Kindley,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Feb. 2023
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Caruth’s determination to cleave simultaneously to the idea both that the traumatic memory is the only historic fact the individual possesses and that this facticity remains incapable of adequate representation is paradoxical bordering on the perverse.—
Will Self,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Nov. 2021
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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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