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
This biological truth has become my personal miracle.
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Stixx Mathews, Essence, 13 June 2025
Finally, an artist who didn’t take himself too seriously or ramble on about authenticity and living his truth.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
The general idea is that in that era the touchstone of truth was conformity to religious doctrines.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 12 June 2025
But what seemed like a fresh start was, in truth, the beginning of the end.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 12 June 2025
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Stixx Mathews, Essence, 13 June 2025
Finally, an artist who didn’t take himself too seriously or ramble on about authenticity and living his truth.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
The general idea is that in that era the touchstone of truth was conformity to religious doctrines.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 12 June 2025
But what seemed like a fresh start was, in truth, the beginning of the end.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 12 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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Incorporate both financial metrics (gross margin, inventory turns, cash conversion cycle) and operational indicators (forecast accuracy, perfect order fulfillment, production attainment).—
Luigi Damasceno,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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His first season in Denver finished with a 4-11 record and a notable regression in his accuracy and TD-INT ratio.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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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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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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“Truth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truth. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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