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"Today, with the rise of social media and followers - factors that shape commercial aspects - this is even more true."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Investors wanted to see something that was better, something that really pointed to true differentiation,” said Evan Seigerman, an analyst with BMO Capital Markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
While this is true, I can never truly enjoy a nice meal out or a new pair of shoes if any amount of debt is hanging over my head.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
“Prayer” also does that, and therein lies its true power.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Thirty miles out of town is the suburb of Eagle River where the dogs are put in trucks and taken eleven miles to Settler’s Bay where the true race starts.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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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
“You never spoke a truer word, boy,” someone muttered dryly to Dumbledore behind Harry.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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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
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“I don’t make it easy,” McIlroy said, and this was the truest thing he said all week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
What we discovered instead was that the truest thing between us had always been friendship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
But something made him settle on the thing that felt the truest: “Because I was always afraid around you. Afraid Josie would like you better than me.”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
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 have lived with our trues heroes—the lower middle-classes.”
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
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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The invert was trued up by drawing along the runners a semi-circular templet having a radius of 21½ ins.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
Be also intreated to have a continuall and conscientious care not to impeach the Parliament in the hearts one of another by whispering complaints, easilier told then tryed or trued.
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward
The plates being interchanged and trued with No. 0, No. 00 was used, and the testing and interchanging repeated.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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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The broken lines illustrate a condition after colleting and before truing.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
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
FUSELAGE.—The method of truing the fuselage is laid down in the aeroplane's specifications.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by H. (Horatio) Barber
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
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