ring true
Example Sentences
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There are many aspects of your letter that ring true.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026
There’s a Buffett quote for everything but one in particular may ring true in light of the market’s recent swings.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
The words British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey spoke on the eve of World War I ring true a century later.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026
Now, more than eight years later, those words still ring true — if not in a more damning way, given all that has happened in the intervening years.
From Salon • Oct. 5, 2025
I have long been skeptical of the bamboozlement theory, because in my experience it does not ring true.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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