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Recent Examples of fact-check
The new policy will put the onus on Face the Nation moderators to fact-check guests in real time.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Such communications also offer vital details when people die or are injured during interactions with police officers — allowing journalists to fact-check statements made by department leaders in their ensuing news releases.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Always review and fact-check AI outputs before using them.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
My cohort is not John Oliver–level media personalities with PR teams, production crews, and a research staff to fact-check the punch lines.
—Jessica Yellin, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Such communications also offer vital details when people die or are injured during interactions with police officers — allowing journalists to fact-check statements made by department leaders in their ensuing news releases.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Always review and fact-check AI outputs before using them.
—Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
My cohort is not John Oliver–level media personalities with PR teams, production crews, and a research staff to fact-check the punch lines.
—Jessica Yellin, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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Texas Legislatures must repeal and revise all radical education reform bills in 2027, and give the power over public education, private schools, and homeschools back to parents, teachers, and communities.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised down prior payroll estimates by 898,000 jobs between April 2024 and March 2025.—
Benzinga,
Freep.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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Today’s edition of 5 Things AM was edited and produced by CNN’s Andrew Torgan.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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The photo albums—handcrafted binders assembled over the course of five decades—are crammed with small prints glued to card stock and annotated in Richards’s cursive script.—
Shannon Taggart,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Far from contemporary pop, each note and lyric demands your full attention; the reward is transcendence, even as the material nudges you to annotate like a philosophy student with a highlighter in hand.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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The House and Senate will redraft Healey’s spending blueprint and debate their own versions, typically in April and May.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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For example, when the firm was completing its recent merger, his team created an agentic capability to redraft the bios of the incoming 1,600 attorneys, which needed to be updated to include the new firm’s information and match its existing writing style.—
Sage Lazzaro,
Fortune,
15 Dec. 2025
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While pinning blame on Cambodia for the bloodshed, Anutin spoke about the imperative to harmonize regional maps to permanently rectify the dispute.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 Feb. 2026
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Come up with strategies for rectifying the issue, as needed, as well.—
Alanna Gallo,
Parents,
7 Feb. 2026
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Rather than simply reworking the interiors and materials, Grillo’s task was to give physical form to a lifetime of experiences.—
Ludovica Stevan,
Architectural Digest,
14 Feb. 2026
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The current bonding program that is supposed to cover the plugging costs needs to be reworked.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Portions of the materials were redacted following public records requests to protect the privacy of victims and witnesses.—
Ashley Carnahan,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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But an official decree that banned sign language was not officially redacted until 2010.—
Claire Rafford,
IndyStar,
9 Feb. 2026
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Savannah, with her sister to her right and her brother to her left, read from a sheet of paper.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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