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
The ruling sent shock waves through Trump's MAGA base, many of whom have long argued the full truth about Epstein's industrial-scale child abuse had been hidden to protect his powerful friends.
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Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Clearly, these governors and the state legislators believe their constituents who voted them into office are so gullible that facts and truth are unnecessary.
—Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
Longer term, this could feed the optimization layer with live flight-ops and crew-roster data so that disruption management and maintenance planning draw from a single source of truth.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
But her unruly secrets reflect the uncomfortable truths that are so often hidden in our own histories.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 June 2025
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Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Clearly, these governors and the state legislators believe their constituents who voted them into office are so gullible that facts and truth are unnecessary.
—Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
Longer term, this could feed the optimization layer with live flight-ops and crew-roster data so that disruption management and maintenance planning draw from a single source of truth.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
But her unruly secrets reflect the uncomfortable truths that are so often hidden in our own histories.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 June 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 19 Jul. 2025.
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