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
In truth, the agency is doing something pro-science.
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James Broughel, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
One truth of which Vigil seems deliberately oblivious is that many of those who inspire confidence and deference, as Boone did, have something going for them.
—Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
It will eventually be donated to a Holocaust museum, where future generations can be confronted with documentary proof of the Nazi genocide and learn the horrible, but important, truth of what happened.
—Elliott Broidy, Sun Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
Samantha Spidell attests there were some kernels of truth in his stories.
—Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
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James Broughel, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
One truth of which Vigil seems deliberately oblivious is that many of those who inspire confidence and deference, as Boone did, have something going for them.
—Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
It will eventually be donated to a Holocaust museum, where future generations can be confronted with documentary proof of the Nazi genocide and learn the horrible, but important, truth of what happened.
—Elliott Broidy, Sun Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
Samantha Spidell attests there were some kernels of truth in his stories.
—Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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The submissions were also sent to prosecutor Daniel Porceddu, who didn't check their accuracy.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Speed is praised more than accuracy.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Siddiqsons is seeing success with Axson Cryo—a fabric Abbas Jan, the mill’s director of sales and marketing, said offers brands a balance of authenticity, comfort and process innovation.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Jan. 2026
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Finalists were required to provide original image files during the final judging stage to verify the authenticity of their work and confirm that no AI tools were used in the creation of the images.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 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
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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 1 Feb. 2026.
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