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From that disharmony, “Everest: The Other Side” forges a uniquely human story of actualization at all costs, revealing the true price of a life spent looking up and not around.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
I pretend my chronic social media use is “for work,” and to some extent that’s true.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Speaking to BBC News NI, Nežič said he wished he "could get there some day" and, now that he has, he described it as "a dream come true".
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Dostoevsky created Myshkin to be a beacon of true Christian decency amid the indifference and self-interest of contemporary Russian society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
I wasn’t even going to try to put into words what I now knew was true about her.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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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
“I think cats are like works of art that inspire you to be truer to yourself,” Meyer says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Jamil may be blunt, but her point is truer now than ever.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Its benefits—cognitive diversity, locally fitted rules, parallel experimentation, choice among competing jurisdictions, and interpretations truer to what Congress enacted—are diffuse and hard to measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
"And yet, it is truly said that blood runs truer than oaths."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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But which version of her Fielder — and, by extension, the audience — sees, and which version is the truest, remains up for debate.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Yet, even among such top-tier talent, the truest audiophiles know the real headliner is listed at the bottom of the flier: “Floating Points Sunflower Sound System.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In so many ways, the works that remain tell the deepest, truest story of yearning, resilience, love—of all that cannot be spoken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
But I did tell her the thing I said before, that food and poop are the truest parts and she said, “That’s interesting.”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
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The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"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
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
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
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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
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New balance staff, two balance screws changed, hairspring trued and cleaned.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
The surplus is scraped off and the top trued with an iron straight-edge.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
After the concrete had been rounded in place, the form was removed and the invert trued up.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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
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Original truing of the hairspring is made necessary by the fact of attaching the collet to its center.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
This facing head is also used frequently for truing the flanges of cylinders which are to be bored, and for similar work.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
Slip the spider on the armature shaft and secure it solidly with the setscrew so that the shaft will not turn in the spider when truing up the armature core.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
It is sometimes impracticable to make a surface as smooth as desirable with a truing plane, because of the direction of the grain of the wood.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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