fact from fiction

idiom

: truth from falsehood

It can sometimes be hard to separate fact from fiction in this controversy.

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The trend of trying to link crime to transgender people is a potential distraction and time-wasting exercise for law enforcement, the news media and social media users who, in the wake of a mass shooting, are trying to sort through fact from fiction. —

David Ingram, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2024 Emotions cooled after that, but season 47 finished strong with the signature moment of Operation: Italy, followed by a stellar penultimate episode in which separating fact from fiction never appeared harder. —

Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024 Related Articles How Republicans pushed Silicon Valley to stop fighting election misinformation Opinion: Can Stanford tell fact from fiction? —

Jerome M. Adams, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024 So what’s fact from fiction, and where are the real people now? —

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