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"And while it's true that osteoarthritis can run in families, it doesn't mean there's nothing a person can do to successfully lower their risk of developing it."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Patterson's trial last year drew podcasters, film crews and true crime fans to a courthouse in the rural town of Morwell, a sedate hamlet in Victoria better known for its prize-winning roses.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Making this worse is that much the same is true in the rest of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“I am wildly grateful, as more than one of my biggest dreams have come true as a result of being an actor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Things like: “describe a place, person, or object you love,” “capture a small but significant moment from your day with sensory details,” and “write about something that used to be true but isn’t anymore.”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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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
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
But look past all that technical prowess, and you’ll find a remarkably introspective story about the complexities of integrity, examining the choices we make and the sacrifices we endure to become truer versions of ourselves.
From Salon ● May 1, 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
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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Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“He was a trailblazer and a public servant in the truest sense of the word.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 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 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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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 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
I have lived with our trues heroes—the lower middle-classes.”
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
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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Illustrations of this principle are as follows: Before proceeding with other processes, a working face and working edge and as many other surfaces as will finally appear in the finished piece, should be trued up.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The alternative is to ream out the bosses and upper end of rod a trifle larger after holes are trued up and fit oversize wrist pins.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
The setting sun trued our reckoning and we ran on by the stars.
From Carette of Sark by John Oxenham
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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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
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 Franklin D. Jones
Power grindstones usually have truing devices attached to them, Fig.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The use of airplanes in this country will require men for rigging, for truing up the wires and struts.
From Opportunities in Aviation by Arthur Sweetser
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