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
Designed by Jacqueline Durran, the wardrobe was elaborately wild to underscore emotional truths rather than period relevancy.
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Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
During the 2025 season, Jones remembers meeting with the coaches and telling them the hard truths of what was occurring.
—Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
There is, of course, truth to the statement that billionaires are reviled.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
But is there any truth to the speculation?
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Feb. 2026
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Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
During the 2025 season, Jones remembers meeting with the coaches and telling them the hard truths of what was occurring.
—Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
There is, of course, truth to the statement that billionaires are reviled.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
But is there any truth to the speculation?
—Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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Raffensperger defended the accuracy of his state's election results.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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Engineers have struggled to close the reaction gap between human perception and machine processing without sacrificing accuracy.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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The script credited to Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley (with story by Nicolas Curcio and Peter Chiarelli) is full of wit and heart, as well as authenticity for basketball fans who will recognize the territory, animated or not.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
9 Feb. 2026
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Fans across the globe loved its authenticity, its complex rhythms, the playfulness oozing out of his collaborations with young musicians from San Juan music schools.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Some people thought the character was too much, but Danica managed to make her just that without losing the truthfulness, and the ending wouldn’t have worked without that.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Evan Kindley,
The New York Review of Books,
16 Feb. 2023
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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.—
Will Self,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Nov. 2021
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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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