veracity
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Smith, for his part, is dubious about the veracity of the ransom notes - and believes Guthrie was ferreted down to Mexico where she could more easily be kept out of sight.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Ross has been entrusted to judge others’ veracity, yet her own candor is in question.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026
Moreover, it would offer a powerful endorsement of the veracity of the research findings and, of course, reduce the growing number of retractions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
But "at some point, the markets are going to start to question the veracity of some of his statements," he added.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026
She said that she was going out to attend a Crowning of the May Queen at some church, but since it isn’t May, I tend to doubt her veracity.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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We must wake up to the iron veracities of this war," he wrote, "and then face them not merely without flinching but with redoubled energy of will and effort.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For who had thought before her of making women's stitches write or paint a great historical event, crowded with homely details which now are dubbed archaeological veracities?
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
You can prevent this!—you can prevent it by a single falsehood, which in this case will be more pleasing to God than a thousand mischievous veracities!
From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli
Downing Street, if it cannot bethink itself of returning to the veracities, will have to vanish altogether!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
But my business is only to state veracities and necessities; I neither look for the acceptance of the one, nor hope for the nearness of the other.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by John Ruskin
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