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
As a master of the movie musical, Bill Condon knows a certain truth about theatergoers.
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Mercury entering Scorpio on the 6th helps uncover hidden truths, while the Full Moon in Aries illuminates your career and public image and invites the release of outdated expectations.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
There’s probably some truth to both arguments.
—Stuart James, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
That’s the honest to God truth.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2025
Mercury entering Scorpio on the 6th helps uncover hidden truths, while the Full Moon in Aries illuminates your career and public image and invites the release of outdated expectations.
—Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
There’s probably some truth to both arguments.
—Stuart James, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
That’s the honest to God truth.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 1 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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The results show a significant improvement over previous aerial docking systems, which typically achieved accuracies of six to eight centimeters.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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Sayin, who leads the country in completion percentage, completed 23 of 27 passes and showed off his accuracy throughout the night.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The judge also questioned the authenticity of Combs’ claims of reform, pointing to his assault of Jane in June 2024.—
Nicki Brown,
CNN Money,
4 Oct. 2025
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Skylark’s energy matched Mecca’s vision perfectly, a retreat where global luxury could meet local authenticity without compromise.—
Essence,
Essence,
3 Oct. 2025
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 8 Oct. 2025.
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