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 Elliot retreats from the devastating reality of his illness, father and daughter are forced to confront the unspoken truths between them.
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Conversations rooted in truth, vulnerability, accountability, forgiveness, grief, love, and understanding.
—Essence, 6 May 2026
Here are two Tony Awards truths, as confirmed by Tuesday’s announcement of the nominations for the 2026 awards.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
This would be equivalent to your slow, steady and practical thought process (Mercury in Taurus) being ambushed by raw, unfiltered truths (Pluto in Aquarius).
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
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Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 May 2026
Conversations rooted in truth, vulnerability, accountability, forgiveness, grief, love, and understanding.
—Essence, 6 May 2026
Here are two Tony Awards truths, as confirmed by Tuesday’s announcement of the nominations for the 2026 awards.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
This would be equivalent to your slow, steady and practical thought process (Mercury in Taurus) being ambushed by raw, unfiltered truths (Pluto in Aquarius).
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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Quijano's team was able to track the orbits of the 15 binary systems to millisecond accuracy.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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In a separate homeowner lawsuit in Oklahoma state court, State Farm's lawyers said the company launched an initiative in 2020 to improve the accuracy of its claims-handling practices, including correcting overpayment and underpayment of claims for wind and hail damage.—
Michael Copley,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2026
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Because as Lena Dunham points out in Famesick, that quest for authenticity often extracted a high price.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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Specificity, not to mention authenticity and representation, have always been crucial to Hool.—
Daniel Vaillancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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There is an emphatic truthfulness to the story and the performances that anchor it, which is both refreshing and innovative.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Mar. 2026
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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 13 May. 2026.
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