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"But if it was true, we were going to lose our lives."
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Whether or not that stereotype still holds true, investors who have tried trading with agents say one of the best parts of letting it run is taking the emotion out of investment decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
In Walter’s case, the related-party loans f initially were reported at between $1 billion and $1.4 billion when the true total actually was between $16 billion and $21 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
But to do this, it sacrifices the straight lines that made the Mercator projection perfect for navigating with - and it cannot be used for measuring the true distance between different places.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
His first words to me, and they’re sadly true.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
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
How can we know that one thing is truer than another?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Young as I am, I face life with more courage and have a better and truer sense of justice than Mother.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Jan Morris once said that the British Empire’s truest morality, real or imagined, was the morality of fair play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 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
I think that’s what they’re seeing when they connect at the beginning of Season 3; they’re the truest version of themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
The leading figures in this revolution were men with Greek names, largely unfamiliar to us today, but the truest pioneers in the development of our civilization and our humanity.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"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
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
See if propeller is trued up to within 1⁄8′′.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
It will also be found that it can be trued with greater facility, especially on the diameter, as the turning tool will not be exposed to the end grain of the wood.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Such debates didn't suggest any course of social or political action, and couldn't be trued in to any of her causes.
From The Troubadour by Robert Augustine Ward Lowndes
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
A set of valve truing and valve-seat reaming cutters is shown at Fig.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Fret-saw the holes, cutting just inside the lines to allow for truing up with a coarse file.
From Things To Make by Archibald Williams
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
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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