1
as in truth
agreement with fact or reality
some viewers complained that the TV docudrama was short on factuality and long on speculation
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as in reality
the quality of being actual
although this account of the scheme seems like it must be fiction, its very factuality makes it all the more fascinating
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Whether or not TikTok is ultimately banned, Meta’s actions this year reflect a clear truth: in a creator economy increasingly shaped by platform power plays and regulation, the companies that act fast and spend big will win the future.—
Ian Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025 -
According to Gottlieb, the harsh truth is that celebrity imprints don’t generally deliver for publishers and more often than not are a huge waste of time for the celebrities.—
Andy Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2025
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In reality, both analyst teams overestimated Tesla’s free cash flows in the years 2022, 2023, and 2024.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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The conditioning of keeping potential moviegoers at home with streaming is a reality.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Apr. 2025
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This wasn't quite as effective, with the accuracy of fly navigation dropping to about 80 percent.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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The small size of the green does not help either, requiring exceptional accuracy on the approach.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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In fact, McGlamry says, it wasn’t referenced in any prior pleadings.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Jaclyn is in fact processing the trauma, and Laurie is trying to help her through it.—
Seija Rankin,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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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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“Factuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factuality. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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