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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Noun
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By embracing the imperfections, his music remained rooted in authenticity and truth.—
Britt Julious,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025 -
And then, sooner or later, the whole truth will come out.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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This rhetoric ignores the reality of a country that will only suffer more — both economically and personally — from climate disasters.—
Laura Rodriguez,
Orlando Sentinel,
23 Jan. 2025
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Following Justin Glaze Breakup The reality star couldn’t help but laugh.—
Angel Saunders,
People.com,
23 Jan. 2025
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The upcoming film will reportedly take the film franchise back to its horror roots, paying homage to the original games with more accuracy than prior installments.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
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Their results show a factor of between three and five improvement in detail and accuracy in the FLI analysis compared to two- and three-point correlation functions.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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In fact, solidified wave ripples are one of the most direct pieces of geological evidence for ancient bodies of standing water, per the statement.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
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In fact, Kaia hopes to join the dog show circuit next year.—
Chloe Malle,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 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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