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verity

[ver-i-tee] / ˈvɛr ɪ ti /
NOUN
truth
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The MyVote website does require a ballot requestor to verity that they are the person asking for it and carries a warning about potential penalties for committing fraud.

From Seattle Times Nov. 4, 2022

But it is also a reminder of a cultural verity that pertains even now.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2020

Many of the most convincing lies come smothered in a sauce of verity.

From Washington Post Feb. 20, 2018

A society reluctant to accept this verity stagnates and, over the decades, consumes its substance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2016

We can establish ‘the verity of the fact’, he says, without having knowledge of the cause.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It is one of baseball’s eternal verities that wins and losses in spring training do not matter.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

They will almost assuredly will be captive of warmed-over doctrinal verities, underwritten by arrogant conviction.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2024

When they have picked themselves up from their humiliation, the French will need to gather their sangfroid and confront some cruel verities.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2021

Myth, magic and superstition are inextricably intertwined with everyday verities, a technique that caused Ms. Morrison’s novels to be likened often to those of Latin American magic realist writers like Gabriel García Márquez.

From New York Times Aug. 6, 2019

I have wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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