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veracity

[vuh-ras-i-tee] / vəˈræs ɪ ti /


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But many in the country did not take them seriously and doubted the veracity of the messages.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 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

Participants read assertions whose veracity was either affirmed or denied by the subsequent presentation of an assessment word.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

The essence of all heroism and veracities that have been or will be.'

From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Hector Carsewell Macpherson

But if you go on into the veracities of the school of Clay, you will find there is something at the roots of almond and apple trees, which is—This.

From Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 by John Ruskin

In this aspect of it, then, I say it is the simplest and nakedest of lovely veracities.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by John Ruskin

There is a bracing quality about family criticism, if we are strong enough to bear its veracities.

From Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier


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