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as in credibility
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as in applicability
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Recent Examples of validity
Always verify the validity of requests before sharing personal information.
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Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
Once police discover Isaiah’s suspicions about Coltrane had validity, Coltrane and his wife Ebony (Cleopatra Coleman) try to flee the country.
—Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
One day earlier, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee wrote to the director of Ohio’s Medicaid program questioning the validity of paying family caregivers following a critical report by a conservative website.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 15 May 2026
Agent Ammie is the Special Agent, Review Fraud Division, who investigates every single review on Liners to verify its validity and unbiasedness.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 14 May 2026
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Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
Once police discover Isaiah’s suspicions about Coltrane had validity, Coltrane and his wife Ebony (Cleopatra Coleman) try to flee the country.
—Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
One day earlier, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee wrote to the director of Ohio’s Medicaid program questioning the validity of paying family caregivers following a critical report by a conservative website.
—Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 15 May 2026
Agent Ammie is the Special Agent, Review Fraud Division, who investigates every single review on Liners to verify its validity and unbiasedness.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for validity
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The $1 trillion-plus annual interest bill can’t be reduced by pressuring the Fed to cut rates without risking an inflationary credibility crisis that would push long rates even higher.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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Making those visible externally builds far more credibility than any statement.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Playwright Mark Rosenblatt takes a leaf from the Peter Morgan playbook of using newsy real-life controversies with direct contemporary applicability to spark balanced drama.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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These factors reduce the applicability and appeal to venture-style funding.—
Samuel Mueller,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Forbes College Financial Grades are designed to assess a private not-for-profit college’s operational soundness and balance sheet health using the following ten measures.—
Matt Schifrin,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Florida lawmakers passed stricter laws for structural soundness and greater condo board transparency.—
Joan Murray,
CBS News,
22 May 2026
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Its focus on interconnectivity is especially resonant right now, and that sense of relevance naturally comes through to clients.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
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Craft cocktails and mocktails are from beverage director Lisa Brown, using ingredients with relevance to Africa and the Caribbean, like a Birds of Paradise cocktail that infuses ginger and hibiscus with East African honey wine.—
Louisa Kung Liu Chu,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
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The lesson is that without internal logic, any story will lose its believability and, with it, its appeal.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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Yes, the glossy aesthetic occasionally dulls the impact of the director’s more tactile sensibilities, and a few script contrivances stretch believability.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2026
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Cultural relevancy requires topical commentary, a point of view, and an audience hungry for what a host and their guests have to say about what’s going on in the world.—
Sabrina Reed,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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This is just another example of the seriousness with which Brunson approaches his job, and a reason why New York has returned to relevancy since Brunson joined the franchise in 2022.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
3 May 2026
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Clark is finally at full strength again after, hampered by a groin injury, played in only 13 games a year ago.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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Smith, who had been the strength coach at American Heritage, was promoted to head coach of the football program.—
Bruce Feldman,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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His latest work, The Urgency of Indigenous Values—available via JSTOR’s Path to Open program—not only examines the origins, wisdom, and pertinence of Haudenosaunee beliefs, but also confronts the inherent limitations of such examination.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
22 Apr. 2026
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Shackleton has some pertinence for fans of Apple TV’s sci-fi alternate-history series For All Mankind, in which prospectors from the United States and the Soviet Union compete for water resources inside the crater.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Validity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/validity. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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