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Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoids
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Many cultures have traditions and superstitions about how what happens on New Year’s Eve impacts the year ahead.—
Chris Brennan, USA Today, 1 Jan. 2026
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Here are some of the most popular superstitions to embrace for good luck or avoid for bad luck.—
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While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.—
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Such fallacies are utterly unacceptable anywhere…The Chinese military will continue to take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly uphold regional peace and stability.—
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This week’s challenge tests your memory of 21st-century books that were inspired by ancient myths, legends and folk tales.—
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Because of this rare condition, superstitions and myths have permeated certain African countries, both positive and negative.—
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This could include sharing the results of the aforementioned A/B tests in a blog, conducting an email awareness campaign dispelling common misconceptions about passkeys, or building popups that briefly explain the benefits of passkeys at the login screen.—
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In 2025, misconceptions about AI flourished as people struggled to make sense of the rapid development and adoption of the technology.—
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Fairness can’t be built on falsehoods.—
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Those bogus images and videos spread not just on X, but also along other superhighways of falsehoods, notably the Meta platforms Instagram, Facebook and Threads, albeit with less engagement.—
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The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason & Dixon (1997) gives way here to a series of detective fictions each set in a distinct historical moment, each featuring a reluctant investigator sifting through the wreckage of cultural paranoia.—
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The fictions that result, many so small and meaningless, can be accepted without much trouble.—
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Trump is just straight-up doling out untruths – and blaming Biden.—
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Inside a mesmerising hall of mirrors inspired by Houdini's illusions, massages with seasonal Hungarian essential oils and rejuvenating mud wraps release any and all tension.—
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Her sister, Kali, has the power to create illusions, so the Eleven that everyone witnessed in her final moments could have been fake, and the real Eleven could have slipped away without being detected.—
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“Factoids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoids. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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