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Fact comes from a Latin word meaning what?

fact

[fakt] / fækt /




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"Though very unsettling, The End of Everything is not in fact a strange book. It's a realist book about a strange world, populated by desperate, unmoored characters."

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

“In fact, historical Black Friday deal analysis has found average furniture discounts of around 35% across major retailers.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

It has been 38 years since the Irish last lorded over college football, a fact that is not particularly surprising when you consider that the last All-Pro passer the school produced was named Joe Montana.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

But local environmental campaigners say it sidesteps the "elephant in the room" of Turkey's ongoing reliance on coal and obscures the fact it has effectively become "Europe's dumping ground" for plastic waste.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

To leave this old house above the watch shop, leave Mama and Father and the aunts, in fact leave behind everything that was certain and well-loved.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

George Chen of The Asia Group told AFP it would be "premature to conclude that Jensen poses a threat to US national security before the facts are fully established."

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

What was missing was the vast fabric of ordinary facts and observations that humans acquire and use almost subconsciously and without which life would be unintelligible — what Lenat termed “common sense.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The company, whose brands include Harry & David and the Popcorn Factory, also cited the risk of AI’s not-infrequent struggles with the facts.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

But all the AI bots can’t undo the facts of Anakin’s story.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

No business could be more objective than money management, and yet even in this business, facts and logic were overwhelmed by the nebulous social dimension of things.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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