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• At the start of the hearing, the boy raised his right hand and swore to tell the truth.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• This had to have all the warts in it in order to tell the truth.
  — USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
• He was asked to raise his right hand and swear to tell the truth.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Only the people on the witness stand have to swear to god to tell the truth.
  — Jim Ryan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The most effective lie is, of course, to tell the truth, but partly.
  — Washington Post Opinions Staff, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• But the most difficult duel, to tell the truth, was the last one with horses.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2023
• Because Knowles-Carter was raised in a household where young girls were told to tell the truth and shame the devil.
  — TIME, 14 Feb. 2024
• Truth has power, but only if there are people around to tell the truth.
  — Matthew Salesses, TIME, 7 May 2024
• The trial had required him to tell the truth, leaving him unmasked.
  — Mike Spies, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2024
• Christie made his announcement at an event in New Hampshire saying that he's been in the race to tell the truth.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• When Cohen took the stand midday and swore to tell the truth, Trump sat a few feet away at the defense table—cross-armed and stone-faced.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• So this is going to be an opportunity for Devin Archer, just to tell the truth.
  — Ashley Carnahan, Fox News, 30 July 2023
• Any witnesses who testify must swear an oath to tell the truth.
  — Kate Brumback, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• What’s more, Baker has intel from Conover (a.k.a. Wallace), who wants to tell the truth now that he’s been outed as a double agent.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
• Madina discovers within her a resilience and courage to tell the truth.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• This granddaughter teaches us to tell the truth, to get uncomfortable truths out in the open, to deal with reality.
  — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2024
• The reason for Kate Middleton’s prolonged absence might be melodramatic or mundane, but no one trusts the Palace to tell the truth.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Carmichael describes the process here as an attempt at a self-Truman Show, forcing himself to tell the truth by surrounding himself with cameras.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Mar. 2024
• For such a regime to survive, the notion that democracy rests on the courage to tell the truth must be eliminated with violence if it cannot be laughed out of existence.
  — Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
• Less than half of respondents expected journalists and government officials to tell the truth.
  — Jacob Turcotte, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Mar. 2024
• Peck uses Cole’s letters, grant application, interviews and testimonies from the photographer’s friends and family to construct a deeply moving portrait of an artist who sacrificed his life to tell the truth.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
• We’re given a President (Nick Offerman) in his third term who has abandoned the American people, committed air strikes against them, and denied journalists any opportunity to tell the truth.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
• However, diversity doesn't really matter unless leadership has created a culture where their teams feel safe to tell the truth.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024