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
Documentaries have always had to deal with the slippery question of truth.
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Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
What does truth mean to you in the context of performing a character?
—Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
In truth, the balance of the team has looked poor since his arrival, with the attacker yet to fully strike up a partnership with Madrid’s other superstar, Vinícius Júnior.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
The existential philosophy of Camus and Sartre, self-evident truths for these absurdist writers, is conveyed less through the content than through the style of their plays.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
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Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
What does truth mean to you in the context of performing a character?
—Zak Cheney-Rice, Vulture, 13 May 2026
In truth, the balance of the team has looked poor since his arrival, with the attacker yet to fully strike up a partnership with Madrid’s other superstar, Vinícius Júnior.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
The existential philosophy of Camus and Sartre, self-evident truths for these absurdist writers, is conveyed less through the content than through the style of their plays.
—Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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The focus here is skin-tone accuracy, soft highlights, and polished minimalism.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Though the longest hitters in the game are finding ways to pick up more speed every year — either through equipment changes or exercise regimens geared toward explosiveness — those same players are trending in the opposite direction in accuracy.—
Gabby Herzig,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
Noun
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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 18 May. 2026.
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