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[troo] / tru /




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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

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

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

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 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

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

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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