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
January 20 – February 18 When hearts meet truth, balance gets real.
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
Is there any truth to that joke?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
Rapkin, truth be told, looked a little dazed.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
This great disparity between reality and story, truth and history, takes on new dimensions when Robin clandestinely takes refuge at an island priory where Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer) tends to his wounds.
—ABC News, 17 June 2026
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Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
Is there any truth to that joke?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
Rapkin, truth be told, looked a little dazed.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 17 June 2026
This great disparity between reality and story, truth and history, takes on new dimensions when Robin clandestinely takes refuge at an island priory where Sister Brigid (Jodie Comer) tends to his wounds.
—ABC News, 17 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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The first few days (and weeks) of training camp should serve as a proving ground for Murray to demonstrate his understanding of the system and for McCarthy to showcase his improved accuracy.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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Stock Chart IconStock chart icon SpaceX, 1 day The accuracy of the perp pricing for such a high-profile event keeps pressure on traditional exchanges who have to keep up with the rapid evolution of investment products and asset classes like event contracts and perpetual futures.—
Oliver Renick,
CNBC,
15 June 2026
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And yet, for all of its authenticity, Until the Sun Explodes never feels like the real deal.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
15 June 2026
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This kind of Fred-and-Ginger-meets-Laurel-and-Hardy coordination, and the trust that undergirds it, provides the authenticity in a world of red-nosed artifice.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
14 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 20 Jun. 2026.
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