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On its website, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) offers some tips to help build a strong score including making payments on time, avoiding getting close to your credit limit, only applying for credit that is needed and fact-checking credit reports for errors.
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
However, a hard truth for Elon Musk to face may be that X users are largely incapable of discerning facts without relying on traditional fact-checking organizations that Musk disagrees should be the sole arbiters of truth online.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
The special includes a series of jokes about The New Yorker, which, the year before, had published an article fact-checking some of the stories told by Hasan Minhaj in his previous comedic work.
—Will Digravio, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025
Elon Musk is annoyed that X's Community Notes feature is fact-checking tweets with information that runs counter to his and President Trump's worldview.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 21 Feb. 2025
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
However, a hard truth for Elon Musk to face may be that X users are largely incapable of discerning facts without relying on traditional fact-checking organizations that Musk disagrees should be the sole arbiters of truth online.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2025
The special includes a series of jokes about The New Yorker, which, the year before, had published an article fact-checking some of the stories told by Hasan Minhaj in his previous comedic work.
—Will Digravio, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025
Elon Musk is annoyed that X's Community Notes feature is fact-checking tweets with information that runs counter to his and President Trump's worldview.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
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After the order was signed, the NCAA revised its own policy on trans athletes in women’s sports, though the revision has been seen as controversial by some.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The settlement also revises the penalty structure for a school that exits the ACC’s grant of rights, a term of art that refers to a school permitting its intellectual property and media rights to be used by the conference and its business partners.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacecraft By Meghan Bartels edited by Clara Moskowitz NASA’s most distant observers are losing steam as the toll of spending nearly five decades in space adds up.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
6 Mar. 2025
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This interview has been edited for length and clarity.—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
6 Mar. 2025
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Bar menus in every major American city were annotated with craft mocktails spiked with adaptogens, and YouTube swamis like Andrew Huberman were proclaiming that alcohol was a poison that hampered cognitive performance.—
Barrett Swanson,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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Annotation supplies: $13.99 Many readers like to annotate their books, so a pack of annotation supplies is a great gift option.—
Christopher Murray,
Fox News,
10 Dec. 2024
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The Republicans cited other federal criminal conspiracy and money laundering laws and asked the department to rescind or redraft the memo.—
Samantha Putterman,
Austin American-Statesman,
31 Aug. 2024
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The state lawyers filed a 50-page brief at the 1st District Court of Appeal contending that Leon County Circuit Judge John Cooper did not have the authority to order the panel, known as the Financial Impact Estimating Conference, to redraft the statement.—
Jim Saunders,
Sun Sentinel,
21 June 2024
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Ashley and the team have been able to rectify that situation.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2025
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To rectify the losses of the business, Condé Nast named Andrea Latten its chief business officer for the U.K. on Thursday.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
WWD,
24 Feb. 2025
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The Bears need a solid weaponry arsenal and which should put him in position to rebound from a disappointing rookie season. ▪ Arizona Cardinals: The Cardinals have an average talent base and more than $75 million in cap space before reworking any deals.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
1 Mar. 2025
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Austin Neudecker, Weave Growth YES: California should consider abandoning or completely reworking the high-speed rail project.—
Phillip Molnar,
The Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2025
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In the petition, St. Clair said New York is the home state of the child, who goes by R.S.C. The author, 26, alleges in the petition that Musk is the father of the boy, who was born in September 2024 (the exact date has been redacted in the filing).—
Elizabeth Rosner,
People.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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The plaintiffs, named in the lawsuit using pseudonyms with their locations redacted, are currently housed in women's facilities but are slated to be transferred.—
Jaclyn Diaz,
NPR,
21 Feb. 2025
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Learning to read those cues wasn't just a neutral process.—
Rebekah Taussig,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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See the full list and read the stories of the women on it here.—
Jacob Pramuk,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2025
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