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“Had I known FanDuel’s true intent, I would not have made the video,” Harper said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
"He absolutely wants to go out on a high and obviously winning would be the best. He is a true winner."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
If you’ve ever wondered why anyone could possibly fall for an investment that sounds too good to be true, you should tune in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The true scale of the outbreak -- which is believed to have begun several months before it was detected -- remains difficult to gauge.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
I just wish that the same was true for Jonah.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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“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
Beginning in the fifties, less discrimination, a truer merit system, and leveler playing fields existed inside the gates of our military posts more than in any Southern city hall or Northern corporation.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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Characters with strong personalities that are not simplistically likable feel the truest to Jimenez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 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
The truest to buttery brioche in flavor and texture, and through its lightness, one could almost convince oneself this is breakfast.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
“The truest apology would be for him to not engage in antisemitic behavior in the future.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
But beyond sating the national pride that had been pricked by the Soviet advance, the prospect of being involved in something that was so untried, untested, and unexplored connected with Katherine’s truest self.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The other was Alan Turing, who pointed out in the 1930s that, with Boolean algebra, only three logical functions are needed to process these "trues" and "falses";�or, in computer terms, Is and 0s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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I have lived with our trues heroes—the lower middle-classes.”
From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie
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 Baumer, Lewis Christopher Edward
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 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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Compensation balances are not presumed to be true in the round under variations of temperature and therefore inspection for true is necessary in somewhere near the same temperature in which they are trued.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.
Balances should generally be trued and poised in normal or slightly above normal temperature.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.
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 Williams, Archibald
Some were engaged in "trueing" the four great foundation beams of what was evidently to be a large building.
From The Westerners by White, Stewart Edward
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 Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
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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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 Kleinlein, Walter J.
Mention has been previously made of the importance of truing both valve head and seat before attempt is made to refit the parts by grinding.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
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 Rose, Joshua
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 Jones, Franklin D.
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