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cold fact

NOUN

nitty-gritty

Synonyms

STRONG

basics core essence focus fundamentals gist heart kernel meat quintessence reality root soul substance

WEAK

bottom line brass tacks chief part chief thing essential details essential part hard fact heart of the matter important matter meat and potatoes name of the game nuts and bolts the facts the name of the game

Antonyms

STRONG

exterior exteriority outside surface

Example Sentences

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His gripping account of Campbell’s death and Hettinger’s crushing depression has been likened to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” with both authors applying a novelist’s storytelling techniques to cold fact.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Whoever or whatever you blame, that is the cold fact.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2022

It’s a stone cold fact and nobody can dispute it.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2019

There will be much drama about whether he can learn to value human emotion over cold fact.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2014

But the entire national supply of copper had been requisitioned for other war needs, and not even Groves’s bullishness could overcome that cold fact.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

cold fact

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