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She warned that early green shoots now visible at the site did not necessarily reflect true or full recovery.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
As a physician, I know that an uncomfortable diagnosis doesn’t become less true because it is unpopular.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
It concludes that the true challenge for Newsom is not just securing the nomination, but mobilizing disaffected and disengaged voters who may otherwise sit out another election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The film's simple premise involves what happens when a wish comes true.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
His first words to me, and they’re sadly true.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Your eyes aren't deceiving you if Labour's red seems a little deeper and the Conservatives' blue a little truer.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
It is a truer gauge of the sector versus a more widely cited ETF External link, which is heavily weighted toward Amazon.com External link and Tesla.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
But look past all that technical prowess, and you’ll find a remarkably introspective story about the complexities of integrity, examining the choices we make and the sacrifices we endure to become truer versions of ourselves.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
A truer picture of the potential job losses may be in the number of central-office positions that are being “closed” or eliminated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
Nothing was truer; as it turned out, Milkman’s feet could hardly make it over the stony road covered with second growth.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Jan Morris once said that the British Empire’s truest morality, real or imagined, was the morality of fair play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
The truest of blue-and-gold bloods, Gabriela decided in third grade that she wanted to play for UCLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
"It's a team in the truest sense of the word. There are no big stars, no freeloaders," Skauge said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
“That’s how everyone has felt about their art, that it lets them be their truest self.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Just three logical functions, called AND, OR and NOT, are needed to process Boole's "trues" and "falses," or Is and Os.
From Time Magazine Archive
The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
And if peoples 'zinks so much about trues, they shouldn't vant me to say what isn't true about being in fun when I wasn't in fun.
From Hoodie by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer
"I don't care," were among the first words Cousin Magdalen made out clearly, "there isn't two trues, and what I'm telling is real true true, as true as true."
From Hoodie by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer
I have lived with our trues heroes—the lower middle-classes.”
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
With the pyramids the Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you've had your Banshee cylinder trued and welded, put the crank into the bottom case and rotate the crank using the rods to do so.
From Time Magazine Archive
The surplus is scraped off and the top trued with an iron straight-edge.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
Figure 28 may be of some value in gaining an idea as to just how this inner coil should appear when it has been trued.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
Such debates didn't suggest any course of social or political action, and couldn't be trued in to any of her causes.
From The Troubadour by Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes
Presently he turned and spoke to the man: “Put your men at work trueing up the roadbed on the next section back, until further orders.”
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
Some were engaged in "trueing" the four great foundation beams of what was evidently to be a large building.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
Her strappy sandals are making lots of noise as she runs around the class looking for a truing wheel--to give her pattern the appropriate curve.
From Time Magazine Archive
This will be a trifle thicker than the course so as to allow for truing the surface of each finished course in the lathe.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The smoothing plane is used for smoothing rather than truing work, and is made shorter than the truing plane so as to be handier in using.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
That is the genius and the glory of the artisan, to perfect each detail ad unguem, like a poet truing up a sonnet.
From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh
A crank-pin truing tool that may be worked by hand is shown at Fig.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
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