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
Cancer season officially begins June 20, with a poignant new moon on the 25th that invites us into emotional truth and vulnerability.
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025
And who beyond a xenophobe could possibly believe that one’s education is not enhanced by a classmate from elsewhere in the world, a truth that applies to kindergarten just as much as at Harvard?
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
Then, ready or not, the full moon in Sagittarius on June 11 brings truth to light.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 June 2025
This reflects a growing truth: emotional connection is a business asset.
—Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
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Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 June 2025
And who beyond a xenophobe could possibly believe that one’s education is not enhanced by a classmate from elsewhere in the world, a truth that applies to kindergarten just as much as at Harvard?
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
Then, ready or not, the full moon in Sagittarius on June 11 brings truth to light.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 June 2025
This reflects a growing truth: emotional connection is a business asset.
—Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truth
Noun
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Companies and creators who want to lead must invest in processes and structures that support accuracy and correct errors.—
Rhea Wessel,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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This group’s past five-year forecasts have proven to be highly accurate on a global scale, the report noted, with less accuracy for predictions on more regional levels.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
28 May 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 6 Jun. 2025.
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