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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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Against this backdrop, Canberra, too, is revising its defense priorities from top to bottom.—
ELY RATNER,
Foreign Affairs,
27 May 2025
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That’s the number of times the Trump administration has either announced new tariff policies or revised existing ones since Trump’s inauguration in January, as tallied by The Washington Post.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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The broadcast version of this story was edited by Arezou Rezvani and produced by Taylor Haney.—
Leila Fadel,
NPR,
29 May 2025
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Editor's Note: Some responses have been lightly edited for length.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
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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The probes provided guidance — or consent decrees — on police reform to rectify civil rights violations that the DOJ uncovered.—
Cheyanne M. Daniels,
The Hill,
21 May 2025
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The bill now heads to the Senate, where it may be reworked to pass, as several Republicans have already raised concerns about it.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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If a comment attracts significant attention, rework it into a full post later.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
19 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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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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The share who said students should learn to read in kindergarten increased to 80 percent from 31 percent.—
Claire Cain Miller,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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