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In response to the 10 Downing Street listing, Booking.com said: "This limited test is not a true reflection of the experience of millions of listings or reviews published on our platform."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The first practice proved that to be true.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
The same holds true for all the sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The scheme, according to the league, obscured the true source of more than $1.1 billion in funding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Soon the man came to believe that all those fantastic tales were true.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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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
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
In many respects, this “Lord of the Flies” is truer to the book than the Brook film.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
The demons called it a hatchet, but it was really a squarish sword, looking much like a cleaver except that the balance was truer.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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As Lawson said of the novel 125 years ago, “the book is true to Australia—the truest I ever read.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
What we discovered instead was that the truest thing between us had always been friendship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 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
“At the beginning of the year you said the truest thing about a person was whose blood they had in their heart. Do you remember that?”
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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 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
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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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If they are trued in a low temperature they will be out of true and possibly out of poise in the temperature to which they are mostly subjected.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
This is trued up on a lathe and encased in a brass tube.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
When an oilstone becomes hollow or uneven by use, it may be trued by rubbing it on a flat board covered with sharp sand, or on sandpaper tacked over a block of wood.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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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Fuselage.—The method of truing the fuselage is laid down in the aeroplane's specifications.
From The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition by H. (Horatio) Barber
It is sometimes impracticable to make a surface as smooth as desirable with a truing plane, because of the direction of the grain of the wood.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
FUSELAGE.—The method of truing the fuselage is laid down in the aeroplane's specifications.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by H. (Horatio) Barber
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