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
Certainly, probing weaknesses in scientific findings is central to the scientific enterprise, and good science should look squarely at ways in which accepted truths might be wrong.
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David Michaels, The Atlantic, 20 July 2025
But the dual Democrat-Republican fascination with The Epstein Files also testifies to a truth Hollywood has forever known: a love of conspiracy stories tugs at us all.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 July 2025
The reports proved spurious, but Gordon still saw an emotional truth.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
That’s the harsh truth no one tells you early enough.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
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David Michaels, The Atlantic, 20 July 2025
But the dual Democrat-Republican fascination with The Epstein Files also testifies to a truth Hollywood has forever known: a love of conspiracy stories tugs at us all.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 July 2025
The reports proved spurious, but Gordon still saw an emotional truth.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
That’s the harsh truth no one tells you early enough.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for truth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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And deep learning, with its advanced neural networks, boosts accuracy and predictive power across financial processes.—
Gananath Misra,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Breast cancer screening tech has come a long way in recent years, with improvements in accuracy and convenience in new methods.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
14 July 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 29 Jul. 2025.
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