factual
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Energy Department officials maintain that Wright’s statements were factual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Howe said that Witherspoon appeared less concerned with factual accuracy than when parts of the story didn’t ring emotionally true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But factual accuracy was never really the point.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
He said the board also challenged some of the film's factual claims and warned it could trigger law-and-order problems in Punjab.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
But by straining to recover the factual ingredients in the story, we have inadvertently ignored the most obvious question—namely, what were these two prominent American statesmen doing on the ledge in the first place?
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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