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veracity

[vuh-ras-i-tee] / vəˈræs ɪ ti /


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She denies wrongdoing, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned the veracity of the felon’s account and closed its inquiry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rev Adrian McCartney was among those who helped report the initial serious allegation, which was ultimately found to have no veracity, made by the vulnerable woman.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

Ross has been entrusted to judge others’ veracity, yet her own candor is in question.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2026

In 2023, Donner filed a lawsuit in a Washington, D.C., court that contended his dismissal was linked to several instances in which he challenged the veracity of the network’s coverage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 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

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

On the contrary, a canal or cattle piece of Cuyp's had many veracities about it; but they were, at best, truths of the ditch and dairy.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin

Yes," we went on, "all the ascertained veracities are immutable.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

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

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

A State grounding itself on the veracities, not on the semblances and the injustices: every citizen a soldier for it.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle


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