fact from fiction
idiom
: truth from falsehood
It can sometimes be hard to separate fact from fiction in this controversy.
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Research that my colleagues and I have undertaken tells us that children need adults to be proactive in teaching them how to discriminate fact from fiction, even if their screen usage seems minimal and safe.
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Evan Orticio, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
The lesson here remains: Even those at the top of the media food chain can have difficulties telling fact from fiction in today’s social media world.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2025
Young people are also wondering about how to save for sabbaticals before retirement, have enough in their emergency funds, and discern fact from fiction when evaluating money management tips from social media.
—Tatiana Walk-Morris, Vox, 20 Feb. 2025
Emotions cooled after that, but season 47 then gave us the signature moment of Operation: Italy, followed by a stellar penultimate episode in which separating fact from fiction never appeared harder thanks to Genevieve's fake idol.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
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Evan Orticio, Scientific American, 2 June 2025
The lesson here remains: Even those at the top of the media food chain can have difficulties telling fact from fiction in today’s social media world.
—Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2025
Young people are also wondering about how to save for sabbaticals before retirement, have enough in their emergency funds, and discern fact from fiction when evaluating money management tips from social media.
—Tatiana Walk-Morris, Vox, 20 Feb. 2025
Emotions cooled after that, but season 47 then gave us the signature moment of Operation: Italy, followed by a stellar penultimate episode in which separating fact from fiction never appeared harder thanks to Genevieve's fake idol.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025
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“Fact from fiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fact%20from%20fiction. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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