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[troo] / tru /




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Once we discover more about Pugh’s Cathy—once we’ve seen her do the horrible acts I’ve listed—her observation that the only true freedom in this world is economic freedom makes more sense.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“People want to live healthier nowadays, and that’s especially true for the younger generations,” Dahncke said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"When I have paint on I feel crazy. It makes me perform better, it inspires me. There's not much different between paint and no paint, this is my true personality."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

This is true across the board, not only for big banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Unfortunately, we don't know if the details are true.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

“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

The tradition calls people to shed the performance of acceptability and live from a truer place.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 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

As a spinner, he was brought into the XI for the turning conditions in Colombo but England's semi-final is likely to be on a truer surface in Mumbai on Thursday.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

No pig ever had truer friends, and he realized that friendship is one of the most satisfying things in the world.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

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

“For better or for worse, ‘The Complex’ is my truest expression of myself as an artist yet because I wasn’t conscious of influences,” Mahajan says on a Zoom call from his home in Providence, R.I.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 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

It is the truest representation of my mom I have ever seen.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

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

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

"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

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

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

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

The surplus is scraped off and the top trued with an iron straight-edge.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox

It will be found best to have the V slightly greater than 90° at the base until the final cut is made, at which time it can be trued up.

From A Course In Wood Turning by Archie S. Milton

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

A balance of this description may be poised as it is and often will produce better timing results than would be gained by perfect truing and subsequent regulation during readjustment of the metals.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein

Fret-saw the holes, cutting just inside the lines to allow for truing up with a coarse file.

From Things To Make by Archibald Williams

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

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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