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, a lot has changed in tennis since Williams stepped away.
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Ben Church, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
And the sad truth is, most kittenfishers aren't actually bad or undesirable.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 9 June 2026
There are allegories that can be read about fear of the unknown breeding cruelty and exploitation, but Disclosure Day is first and foremost a propulsive yarn with thematic roots in hope, truth, empathy and perhaps even spirituality.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
Some truths reveal themselves only when someone is patient enough to keep watching.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
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Ben Church, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
And the sad truth is, most kittenfishers aren't actually bad or undesirable.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 9 June 2026
There are allegories that can be read about fear of the unknown breeding cruelty and exploitation, but Disclosure Day is first and foremost a propulsive yarn with thematic roots in hope, truth, empathy and perhaps even spirituality.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2026
Some truths reveal themselves only when someone is patient enough to keep watching.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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The commitment to accuracy extended beyond the stage costumes.—
Lily Brown,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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The kinds of language and reasoning models that can run locally on an iPhone or Mac are relatively small, limiting their capabilities and accuracy.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Unlike impersonators, who pretend to be Elvis and sometimes present a characterized version of the king, tribute artists strive for authenticity.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 June 2026
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There's no point in trying to be somebody else apart from yourself because people want authenticity and real human music and human connection.—
Jack Irvin,
PEOPLE,
8 June 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 11 Jun. 2026.
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