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
Juan-Carlos Ruck, executive vice president, North West Food and Drug operations, said that Wednesday morning will be the moment of truth for everyone who has been working toward that happening.
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Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2026
Holding multiple truths does not require treating them as morally equivalent.
—Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Lead with truth, protect dignity and take full responsibility.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Today’s astro-weather is buzzing with unread texts and analysis paralysis, but beneath all of the distractions (not to mention the need to overexplain yourself), an important truth is coming to the surface.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
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Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 May 2026
Holding multiple truths does not require treating them as morally equivalent.
—Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Lead with truth, protect dignity and take full responsibility.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Today’s astro-weather is buzzing with unread texts and analysis paralysis, but beneath all of the distractions (not to mention the need to overexplain yourself), an important truth is coming to the surface.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
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Off a hunch, Mollick ran the story through Pangram, a program that detects AI writing with 99% accuracy.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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Using hardware mounted to the ceilings of brick-and-mortar stores, Radar’s technology can read any radio-frequency identification, or RFID, tag with 99% accuracy, the company said.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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The owners sourced each piece of furniture from local markets, adding to the three-bedroom’s authenticity.—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
18 May 2026
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But the show does succeed in updating the stereotype, without pandering, and with the genuine authenticity that only photography can produce.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
18 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 21 May. 2026.
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