How to Use fact-check in a Sentence

fact-check

verb
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  • Any fact-checks will be weighed against moments where there were none at all.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • There’s no way to fact-check the secrets; Frank takes those sharing them at their word.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But the beliefs of the faithful live in an arena beyond a fact-check.
    — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • Heinrich drew the ire of Fox opinion hosts by tweeting a fact-check on some of Trump’s claims.
    — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The athlete said that his father would come across crazy tabloid stories from time to time and call him to fact-check.
    — Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • False, according to a fact-checking page the agency has set up.
    — Miles Bryan, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant fromMeta.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Will Tapper and Bash fact-check in real time, a Herculean task when Trump is talking?
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
  • Coordinate the roadmap for long-term 538 projects with a special eye to the demands of our fact-checking process.
    — 538 and Abc News, ABC News, 21 May 2024
  • And in those long interviews, many hosts aren’t fact-checking or pushing back all that much.
    — Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Here are four fact-checks on the main claims about Helene recovery efforts.
    — Rhona Tarrant, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Do Your Research There are several fact-checking sites on the web.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The Community Notes system is made up of X users who volunteer to fact-check posts on the site.
    — WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Cavuto also fact-checked Trump in the middle of a campaign rally.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Twitter added fact-checking context to the post, pointing out that Gomez did not attend this year.
    — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 4 May 2023
  • Community notes allow users on X to fact-check false posts on the platform.
    — Sean Lyngaas, CNN, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The Times fact-checked those claims and other remarks Trump has made about immigration.
    — Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Chatbots can fail to fact-check and verify the source of any information.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 21 July 2023
  • Claims to the contrary were fact-checked by some Fox News journalists and the network’s own research department.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Clarke raised multiple false claims which Ohage was unprepared for (as these could not be fact-checked in real time), and in 1903, the law was repealed.
    — Time, 22 June 2023
  • And in early 2024, Meta’s third-party fact-checking partners will be able to review and rate false content on Threads.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The now-defunct site was created in 2008 as a way to filter and fact-check political news shared by the media.
    — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Look for a more realistic outlook, fact-check your thoughts and take action.
    — Luciana Paulise, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The third-party fact-checking system will be replaced with community notes similar to X, Zuckerberg said in a video.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Now, the platforms' fact-checking teams have been dismantled, and traditional media is more delegitimized with a lot of consumers.
    — Axios, 8 Jan. 2025

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