truth
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“Young adults respond rationally to inflation and stagnant wages” doesn’t inspire quite the same existential panic as “Gen Z killed nightlife,” but it’s probably closer to the truth.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Cawthorne said he has been on a 20 year mission to uncover the truth.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The very best novels will never try to explicitly sell you lies as the truth, or narrative as dogma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The truth was that I was enjoying his company, even though, of course, I knew that I should not be.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
It is the battle of living in this country to try to hold these two truths in one’s mind simultaneously.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
But as the season evolves, the drama deals out harder truths, too.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
“Postmodernism purports that there are no objective truths, other than this one objective truth—that there are no objective truths.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
To heal it, I’d need to accept truths that I didn’t want to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
He had wanted there to be large, everlasting truths.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing truth
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