the truth
noun
: the real facts about something : the things that are true
Are you telling (me) the truth?
At some point you have to face the simple/hard/honest/plain/naked truth that we failed.
Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
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But the truth is, no matter who the President is, that certainly there can be federal overreach that the federal government clearly is a huge bureaucracy with many, many agencies that sometimes step on Texans' toes.
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Jack Fink, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
But the truth is that people were deeply anxious about making ends meet.
—ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
As suspicion mounts, both women must navigate lies, danger, and their own pasts to survive—and find the truth.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025
Production hardware will decide the truth.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
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Jack Fink, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
But the truth is that people were deeply anxious about making ends meet.
—ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
As suspicion mounts, both women must navigate lies, danger, and their own pasts to survive—and find the truth.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025
Production hardware will decide the truth.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the truth
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“The truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20truth. Accessed 1 Jan. 2026.
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