fact-check

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Recent Examples of fact-check It has been fact-checked and signed off repeatedly, and yet the BBC refuses to set a broadcast date. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 May 2025 Institutional Preparedness Brands should also build alliances with external partners such as fact-checking organizations and reputation management firms. Deboshree Sarkar, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 This article has been updated to clarify that Meta is ending fact-checking operations only in the United States. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025 This week’s White House Report Card finds President Donald Trump cruising into his second 100 days with another major promise kept and a fact-check on Democratic lies about his plans. Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fact-check
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fact-check
Verb
  • The changes are part of Newsom’s May revise to be unveiled Wednesday and aimed at addressing a $16 billion shortfall blamed on President Donald Trump’s tariffs, as well as rising drug costs and higher health care utilization among seniors.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2025
  • The Trump administration is greasing the wheels on the transition to autonomous driving by relaxing and revising federal regulations, though risks to the public remain.
    Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 14 May 2025
Verb
  • The day continued with a session on Final Cut Pro, where attendees learned about editing techniques and how to refine their video content.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 17 May 2025
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • Need to annotate, merge, or convert your document type?
    StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • MuleSoft says that because LLMs need access to the API specifications, they must be annotated with metadata that the LLMs can reason with.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Verb
  • If ballot language is challenged in court, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins will now get three opportunities to write his own before the courts can redraft the wording.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 May 2025
  • My wife took the relevant bits of the newsletter, pasted them into Claude—the A.I. system offered by the firm Anthropic—and asked it to redraft them as an e-mail to the county.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Nonetheless, the Colts have now taken down the video and will now look to rectify the mistake.
    Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • In 2020, the WNBA rectified their Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that included full salaries on maternity leave, a child care stipend, and benefits to support adoption, surrogacy and fertility treatments.
    Allison Smith, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • Seven of New Haven’s 20 varsity programs played in NCAA Tournaments this year, including football, which will need a couple of seasons to rework its schedules before joining the NEC.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025
  • Archetypal masculine garments were reworked into a sensual personalized silhouette.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 8 May 2025
Verb
  • According to the arrest affidavit, which was viewed by The Times, the incident took place in the afternoon of April 28 after Furcal and his accuser — a man whose name was redacted from the affidavit — nearly collided while driving their pickup trucks outside the grocery store.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
  • Burnette said another person whose name was redacted from the documents was standing to the right of the dumpster and fired a .223 caliber rifle at Sweet.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The founding team actively reads customer reviews, emails, and support requests to guide product development.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • After some patter from the hype man, Greg Gutfeld came out and read MAGA-dad jokes off a teleprompter, and teed up his four guests: a comedian named Michael Loftus, the anarchist troll Michael Malice, the former MTV v.j. Kennedy, and Cobb, who wore a Chicago Blackhawks hockey jersey.
    Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025

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“Fact-check.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fact-check. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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