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true

[troo] / tru /




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This is particularly true for the overnight repurchase, or repo, market, where borrowers pledge bonds for cash.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Put simply: It’s more difficult to maintain the true intimacy than it’s ever been.

From Salon Aug. 15, 2026

That’s no longer true: A limited number of companies now drive most of its returns as they fuel the buildout of artificial intelligence, and an even smaller handful “chip” in the rest — pun intended.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

Their conversation explores characters who hide their true nature behind carefully constructed personas, the role of technology in enabling obsession and revenge, and the social rituals that define contemporary London.

From Slate Aug. 15, 2026

When Mr. Haber had announced that she was ill, I’d had a nagging feeling that it wasn’t true.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Jamil may be blunt, but her point is truer now than ever.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

“For many years, the numbers were under-counted and what we’re seeing now is a truer representation of the sports audience,” Mulvihill said in a recent interview.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 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

The primacy of youth was never truer than in the Romantic era.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

My country is rich in the minerals and gems that lie beneath its soil, but I have always known that its greatest wealth is its people, finer and truer than the purest diamonds.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

“The truest apology would be for him to not engage in antisemitic behavior in the future.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

When the guests at Tamar’s wedding ate the cream puffs, they could taste the truest thing in all the world at that moment—the baker’s pain.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

It will also be found that it can be trued with greater facility, especially on the diameter, as the turning tool will not be exposed to the end grain of the wood.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

Illustrations of this principle are as follows: Before proceeding with other processes, a working face and working edge and as many other surfaces as will finally appear in the finished piece, should be trued up.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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

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

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

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

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

Who sells a tool for truing up a crosshead wrist?

From Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

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.

If the lathe has raised Vs on the bed it will be sufficient to true them only, without truing the flat surfaces.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose




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