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[troo] / tru /




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It's well known that AI chatbots like Claude or Gemini can sometimes hallucinate things that simply aren't true.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

He had joked with reporters that he hadn’t been sure if rumors of his call-up were true because “as everyone knows, you can’t believe what’s in the paper.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

By your 40s, two things are usually true: You’re at or close to your peak earning years, and your accounts have gotten big enough that what you keep matters more than what you pick.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Second, it isn’t necessarily true that a well-intentioned AI whose evil twin is smart enough to bring down civilization is so smart that it’s bound to rake in big profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

I knew from the way seventh graders had talked about her in the past that she was the teacher to get, and it turned out to be true.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

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

I don’t think I’ve ever repeated truer words.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

The truest sign vacation season is over: Take a gander at the cuckoo hotel rates in New York City next week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Characters with strong personalities that are not simplistically likable feel the truest to Jimenez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

“I think this is my final test, Moon Shadow: the final and truest measure of whether I’m worthy to become a dragon again.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

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

If we have two squares that are trued and have their edges parallel, we may test them for being at a right angle by trying them together as in Figs.

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

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

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

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

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

Power grindstones usually have truing devices attached to them, Fig.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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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