How to Use fact from fiction in a Sentence

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• One of the most important of these is the ability to tell fact from fiction.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
• In part three, Matt and Jag had to separate fact from fiction in statements from and about their castmates.
  — EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
• Overall there are very few data showing the best way to teach children how to tell fact from fiction.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2022
• Mascia, whose job is separating fact from fiction, won't go so far as to call The Curse of the Bronze Lady a bunch of hooey.
  — USA Today, 25 Oct. 2021
• The simple thing to do would be to cross-reference the post with CNN’s own content, or any reputable news source, to discern fact from fiction.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2022
• The film tells the story of a frustrated son who tries to distinguish fact from fiction in his dying father’s life.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 15 July 2022
• The challenge for viewers will be to unravel fact from fiction when watching the Hollywood epic.
  — Nathan Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• An unscripted true-crime series that presents both sides of a case directly from the victims and criminals and leaves the viewer to sort fact from fiction.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2022
• Trying to separate fact from fiction in her work can be exhausting, and some visitors may resent being toyed with for the sake of art.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
• Some of it may be true -- that some of it is not exactly is announced at the start of every episode -- and perhaps you will be moved to do some independent reading on the subject to winnow fact from fiction.
  — cleveland, 9 Oct. 2020
• Congress is debating the potential and dangers of AI as the products raise questions about the future of creative industries and the ability to tell fact from fiction.
  — Teresa Xie, Fortune, 29 June 2023
• Now, with an emergence of new authors with new, modern day perspectives, the plots are thickening and some stories are almost too hard to separate fact from fiction.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 2 Aug. 2022
• Evon has spent his career deciphering fact from fiction on social media.
  — Tom Hanson, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
• Though the tasks focused on misinformation of a civic nature, the results suggest that teenagers may have a hard time telling fact from fiction in a variety of online situations.
  — Kat McKim, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2021
• Without a way to separate fact from fiction, the future of our digitized economy will be in serious jeopardy.
  — Mounir Ibrahim, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• The first objective must be to meaningfully distinguish fact from fiction.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 Dec. 2022
• Blanco has become such a mythic figure that the line separating fact from fiction soon becomes extremely murky.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2024
• The South Korean public is mature enough to distinguish fact from fiction, an opposition party spokesman said.
  — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 3 May 2021
• That made the story a perfect tool for an educator trying to teach high school students how to separate fact from fiction — a survival skill in a culture drowning in a tsunami of information.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• Experts say these changes have undermined users’ ability to determine which accounts are credible and to separate fact from fiction.
  — Astha Rajvanshi, TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• With a digital subscription to Scientific American, separate fact from fiction on the road to well being.
  — Scientific American, 7 May 2022
• Bray rejects this etiology of the disease, which implies that the anorexic, like so many Madame Bovaries before her, suffers simply from an inability to distinguish fact from fiction.
  — Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• The new study from the Stanford History Education Group shows that 2020's first-time voters often struggle to sort fact from fiction despite their technical prowess on smartphones and social media.
  — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
• While separating fact from fiction on social media isn’t always easy, there’s no question that the power and moral clarity of the many voices coming out of a once-peaceful nation of 44 million have made the crisis impossible to avoid.
  — Kate Linthicumstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• Often times, viral images circulated on social media platforms turn out not to be from the current Israel-Hamas conflict, making their work crucial in separating fact from fiction.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
• While the internet is full of convenient, at-your-fingertips information, not all information is created equal— and discerning fact from fiction can be a challenge.
  — Dr. Neha Chaudhary, CNN, 28 June 2021
• As a freak tropical storm flooded swaths of Southern California over the weekend, residents and government agencies who turned to X, formerly known as Twitter, for real-time updates struggled to discern fact from fiction.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• In any war, discerning fact from fiction (or propaganda) can be exceedingly difficult.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• Aides said privately that Trump had trouble processing information and distinguishing fact from fiction.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• Studies have shown that well-meaning individuals across the political spectrum simply have trouble separating fact from fiction.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 29 Aug 2024