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
Health experts say there’s a grain of truth to that idea, but the benefits of this combo may be overstated.
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Eleesha Lockett, Verywell Health, 9 Jan. 2026
The distinction between truth and delusion has taken some tough blows in the digital age — from lying politicians, the internet, politicians lying on the internet — and that was before AI.
—Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2026
In truth, this competition is unlikely to be a priority for Sean Dyche’s Forest.
—Colin Millar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
The bill would impose an age restriction of 21 years or older, require truth-in-labeling, mandate independent testing, and establish beverage potency limits.
—Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 9 Jan. 2026
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Motorola built the camera system around Sony’s LYTIA sensor to improve brightness and color accuracy.—
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For decades, the program was known for a rigorous scientific review and inspection process to ensure accuracy.—
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Audiences of Netflix’s Love on the Spectrum will remember Marilla for her authenticity and warmth on the show.—
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Can Exist in Authentic Architecture Story Hill Renovations is also seeing a growing desire for authenticity as a reason to keep the kitchen closed off.—
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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.—
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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.—
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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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