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Recent Examples of fact-check
The feud began Friday when the far-right wing congresswoman took exception to Grok fact-checking her commitment to her faith by saying her support for conspiracy theories and Christian nationalism calls her beliefs into question.
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Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
In fact, the video, published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by the news agency's fact-check team, showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma.
—Stephanie Burnett, USA Today, 23 May 2025
All information has been reviewed and fact-checked.
—Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2025
By the same token, claims about its finances are exceedingly easy to fact-check.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 19 May 2025
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Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
In fact, the video, published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by the news agency's fact-check team, showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma.
—Stephanie Burnett, USA Today, 23 May 2025
All information has been reviewed and fact-checked.
—Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 22 May 2025
By the same token, claims about its finances are exceedingly easy to fact-check.
—Catherine Baab, Quartz, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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In 2018, Germany committed to boosting its standing forces to 203,000 by 2025 — a target date that was later revised to 2031.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN Money,
8 June 2025
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Payroll job growth was slightly better than expected at 139,000, but the previous two months were revised lower.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
29 May 2025
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By Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna Bryner Last week a quartet of British climbers made it to the top of Mount Everest—and spent less than a week on the total round trip from London.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
29 May 2025
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Need to annotate, merge, or convert your document type?—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
16 May 2025
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MuleSoft says that because LLMs need access to the API specifications, they must be annotated with metadata that the LLMs can reason with.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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If ballot language is challenged in court, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins will now get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
5 May 2025
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My wife took the relevant bits of the newsletter, pasted them into Claude—the A.I. system offered by the firm Anthropic—and asked it to redraft them as an e-mail to the county.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
29 Apr. 2025
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Cross said the city has yet to fully rectify its sordid legacy of redlining, discriminatory banks and other practices that segregated the South and West sides.—
Alice Yin,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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While reducing schedules helps mitigate delays, airlines cannot address the systemic problems that undermine passengers' sense of safety or rectify headlines about controllers warning of safety concerns.—
Allen Adamson,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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The early alert gave the company time to intervene, rework the agent’s schedule, and keep a key team member.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Could the defense be reworked if an upgrade comes along?—
Cory Lavalette,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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El Cajon received a telephone call from an unidentified male asking if (name redacted) was there.—
Austin Meek,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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This production contained several complaints from teachers whose names were redacted, including a couple that were not shared with the district during the audit process.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
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As a result, the surface of the land and sea is an open book that anyone with an internet connection can read to the point where the embarrassing launch failure of a North Korean frigate is instantly world news instead of a vague rumor.—
David Szondy
May 31,
New Atlas,
31 May 2025
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What great fun to read about Monty and Rose, Searocket and Imani, Sage, Uncle Larry, Pepper and Blaze, just to name a few, and actually see photos of them, courtesy of skilled photojournalists.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 May 2025
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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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