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In a GoFundMe to raise money for a memorial service following the boy’s death, Legend was remembered as a “bright light in so many lives” and “a true godsend to those who loved him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
In Hamawy’s case, it led to suspicions about his past and true motives that was effective enough for his eventual primary win to be deemed “controversial.”
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
If political expediency often ruled his mind, his heart was that of a true patriot, dedicated always to the freedom he knew only his country could ultimately achieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“A carefully edited approach creates a fresh perspective that feels elegant, timeless, and true to the home’s legacy.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The true cold had found us eighty miles out.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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Its benefits—cognitive diversity, locally fitted rules, parallel experimentation, choice among competing jurisdictions, and interpretations truer to what Congress enacted—are diffuse and hard to measure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
“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
She told herself that there were powers stronger than hatred, and spells older and truer than any the maegi had learned in Asshai.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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“He was a trailblazer and a public servant in the truest sense of the word.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
“I don’t make it easy,” McIlroy said, and this was the truest thing he said all week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 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
Now I was in search of the truest stories, the ones that would best represent the silk feathered hats.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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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 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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The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
I have lived with our trues heroes—the lower middle-classes.”
From The First Violin A Novel by Fothergill, Jessie
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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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
Be also intreated to have a continuall and conscientious care not to impeach the Parliament in the hearts one of another by whispering complaints, easilier told then tryed or trued.
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Ward, Nathaniel
The plates being interchanged and trued with No. 0, No. 00 was used, and the testing and interchanging repeated.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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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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
FUSELAGE.—The method of truing the fuselage is laid down in the aeroplane's specifications.
From The Aeroplane Speaks by Barber, H. (Horatio)
Who sells a tool for truing up a crosshead wrist?
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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