fact-checks

present tense third-person singular of fact-check

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-checks
Verb
  • Jimmy Boegle edits and publishes the Reno News & Review and the Coachella Independent in Palm Springs and is a past president of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 27 June 2026
  • Jenkin also edits and scores the time-travel mystery starring George McKay and Callum Turner.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • Pretending to be the smart person who annotates their books can lead to becoming that person.
    Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Pressing for clearer answers For months, frustration among stakeholders has centered on numbers that keep shifting as the district revises its budget projections.
    Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • One area where Goldman explicitly revises its prior pessimism is jobs — though not in the direction AI boosters would prefer.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • Part of the Splash Jelly Drop collection, Tory Burch’s Mini Romy reworks one of the brand’s signature shapes into a bright aquatic blue that immediately calls to mind swimming pools and cloudless skies.
    Sanika Achrekar, Glamour, 2 July 2026
  • Today, denim is getting a new influx of American talent thanks to brands like B Sides, a tiny label in upstate New York that takes selvage fabric and reworks it into new patchwork cuts.
    Faran Krentcil, InStyle, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • That’s helped set Waymo apart from its much smaller autonomous-vehicle rival, Tesla’s Robotaxi service, which redacts the most informative parts of its safety data and ignores press queries.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 29 May 2026
  • More detail about what was hit was not available because the Austin automaker redacts narratives in its public reports and did not respond to a request for comment.
    Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The painful irony is that this retreat, invisible from the inside, reads as uncertainty from the outside.
    Karyn Gallant, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Its parent company is Taiheiyo Cement, a Japanese company that bought CalPortland in 1990, its website reads.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • This modest proposal rectifies that, but only financially.
    Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Thankfully, Part 2 rectifies the issue by bringing forth the yearning, longing and desire between them that were sorely missing, and the couple’s relationship finally gets the lusty zeal fans have been waiting for.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Soon after, Hawk absentmindedly corrects Piña’s English, prompting her to air her own frustrations with their relationship.
    Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • This story corrects the day of week.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 June 2026
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“Fact-checks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-checks. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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