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
This tension—balancing the free flow of information with protections for truth—is familiar to any online forum built on anonymous assessments, from Yelp to Rate My Professors.
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The visit also draws attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who spent only five years in Italy but is often seen through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Navigating transphobic rhetoric Significantly, this latter claim is embedded within partial truths.
—Jenna Norosky, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
And that joke carries a bitter truth.
—Yunus Emre Tozal, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 14 Apr. 2026
The visit also draws attention to the North African origins of Augustine, who spent only five years in Italy but is often seen through a Eurocentric lens as one of the greatest Western thinkers of Christianity for his writings on truth, evil, creation and grace.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2026
Navigating transphobic rhetoric Significantly, this latter claim is embedded within partial truths.
—Jenna Norosky, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
And that joke carries a bitter truth.
—Yunus Emre Tozal, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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Advanced statistical modeling revealed that a group of six piRNAs alone predicted two‑year survival with accuracy as high as 86%.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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Improvements in timing accuracy can also open doors to new science.—
Andrei Derevianko,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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Opposite him in the octagon is Bren Foster (Xavier Grau), a real-life martial artist and actor whose presence adds another layer of authenticity.—
Sean Sennett,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Apr. 2026
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Customers are gravitating toward pieces with authenticity and recognizable cultural references, items that feel both personal and rooted in a specific moment or aesthetic.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
13 Apr. 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 20 Apr. 2026.
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