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To be true, the economics of Russian oil have shifted.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
That is hilarious and, true or not, I would agree it’s a bit of an overshare.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Weather respects no borders, and this is especially true for water," Saulo said, arguing for the importance of "shared data, shared standards and shared early warnings".
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
My mother came out with me, Louis came out with me, my sister came out with me, and it was incredibly true: I had to be working or else I would die.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
At last, the true story of Phineas Gage is out in the open.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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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
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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The truest sign vacation season is over: Take a gander at the cuckoo hotel rates in New York City next week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
That is the truest statement I've ever heard.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
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 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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The surplus is scraped off and the top trued with an iron straight-edge.
From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by George J. Cox
New balance staff, two balance screws changed, hairspring trued and cleaned.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
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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Power grindstones usually have truing devices attached to them, Fig.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
Special grinders are used for truing these hardened centers.
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
A crank-pin truing tool that may be worked by hand is shown at Fig.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Nearly two months were consumed in truing and smoothing the stone, as all millers in the mill had struck at once when they became acquainted with the character of the changes I proposed to make.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
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