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
Nuanced historical truth cannot thrive or die based on its political usefulness to the current administration.
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Time, 20 May 2025
Lena’s commitment to truth, especially right now, makes her work culturally vital, profoundly human, and rare.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 May 2025
But the most obvious truths are sometimes worth reiterating when hostile forces, draping themselves in pseudo-concern for business and the economy, attempt to put a choke hold on art.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
The simple, crucial truth is that capital goes where it’s treated well.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
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Time, 20 May 2025
Lena’s commitment to truth, especially right now, makes her work culturally vital, profoundly human, and rare.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 May 2025
But the most obvious truths are sometimes worth reiterating when hostile forces, draping themselves in pseudo-concern for business and the economy, attempt to put a choke hold on art.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
The simple, crucial truth is that capital goes where it’s treated well.
—John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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Companies and creators who want to lead must invest in processes and structures that support accuracy and correct errors.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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This group’s past five-year forecasts have proven to be highly accurate on a global scale, the report noted, with less accuracy for predictions on more regional levels.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
28 May 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 2 Jun. 2025.
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