truth serum
Example Sentences
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As the YouTube hit demonstrates, hot sauce isn’t just for daredevils and masochists: It’s a truth serum.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
“If opening day was today, he would certainly be running out there in center, which I know he loves. I think if you put truth serum in him, that’s what he’d want to do, regardless.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
The Yes Men refer to their practice as “identity correction,” ventriloquizing what corporate culture would say if a truth serum made it display its real self.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022
“COVID,” he says, “is a truth serum bringing it all out.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2020
Maybe it isn’t possible to lie under the truth serum, but to select which version of the truth to tell: Four is his name, hut it is not his name.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
