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
On Wednesday, with the franchise in a decaying state, Falvey told him the honest truth.
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Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025
Six years after her last album, the heralded artist returned with a genre-blending project rooted in clarity, elevation, and emotional truth.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 31 July 2025
That take is just plain wrong—truth is, the tech giants are already booking profits from AI.
—Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Fragmented compliance data can lead to blind spots, so create a single source of truth.
—Jesse Corn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025
Six years after her last album, the heralded artist returned with a genre-blending project rooted in clarity, elevation, and emotional truth.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 31 July 2025
That take is just plain wrong—truth is, the tech giants are already booking profits from AI.
—Michael Foster, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Fragmented compliance data can lead to blind spots, so create a single source of truth.
—Jesse Corn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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Some agency officials have voiced concerns about the accuracy of the tool’s legal interpretations.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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So far, measurements have found no difference between the two to an accuracy of 1.5 parts in a billion.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
28 July 2025
Noun
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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 6 Aug. 2025.
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