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
These videos reflect a truth that predates and will almost certainly outlive them: When life revolves around work, even leisure becomes labor.
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Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
The sad truth about these last two Champions League campaigns is that the single most memorable game was losing 7-2 at home to Bayern Munich, in the dying days of the Mauricio Pochettino era.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
The crew later discovers a horrifying truth about the origins of the Xenomorphs and their creators.
—Maddie Garfinkle, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Once again, America confronts the unpleasant truth that the Constitution does not expressly guarantee a right to vote — and neither will the Supreme Court.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
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Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
The sad truth about these last two Champions League campaigns is that the single most memorable game was losing 7-2 at home to Bayern Munich, in the dying days of the Mauricio Pochettino era.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2025
The crew later discovers a horrifying truth about the origins of the Xenomorphs and their creators.
—Maddie Garfinkle, People.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Once again, America confronts the unpleasant truth that the Constitution does not expressly guarantee a right to vote — and neither will the Supreme Court.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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OpenAI published data showing higher accuracy from GPT-5 in answering PhD-level science questions and handling coding tasks.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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However, in a report evaluating last winter's forecasts, the almanac reported an overall accuracy rate of 64% for the season.—
Laura Daniella Sepulveda,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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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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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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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