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[troo] / tru /




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That is true for Kim and Akin, who say they don’t have immediate plans to move to Portugal.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"So the inference that the Met didn't try on that case is just not true, the Met tried," he said.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The odds of this forecast coming true are close to nil; employment almost never collapses by that much, and never when output is skyrocketing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

But, as she also said, “many things can be true at the same time.”

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

I’ll figure out what needs to be done to make Pops’s dream come true so that when Nate’s ready, everything will be all teed up for him.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

“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

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 stories of her dressing as a shepherdess and milking the royal cows are probably no truer than the claim that she said, “Let them eat brioche.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

The feel of neglect is somehow truer to the spirit of Sing Sing.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.

From Slate Jul. 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

I think that’s what they’re seeing when they connect at the beginning of Season 3; they’re the truest version of themselves.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2026

For birthdays, though, the truest success metric is simple: people linger.

From Salon Feb. 3, 2026

This is the truest thing Mahmoud has said.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

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

"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

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 plates are very readily fixed to the circular table H, and the edge of the flange trued up much quicker than by the ordinary means of chipping.

From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Joshua Rose

The pulley is now put to its place on the shaft and keyed, the edges trued up, and the face turned off with the utmost exactness.

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

At least as many of its surfaces should be trued as are necessary for the "lay out."

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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

First, the bar may be set to accommodate the cylinder bore, truing it out with as light a cut as possible.

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

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

Allow a little "spare" on the boards for truing up.

From Things To Make by Archibald Williams




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