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Recent Examples of factoid
However easy that is to explain away, that factoid remains kind of interesting.
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Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
By collecting their earliest recordings straight through the later years, and tossing in booklets loaded with history-minded factoids, each of the sets lent a shape and narrative to an artist’s musical career.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Announcer Kevin Frazier, who missed no chance to remind you that this was Hollywood’s biggest party — as opposed, by implication, to the Oscars and Emmys, chained to their dull academies — chimed in with factoids about presenters and winners, like a wedding DJ working the crowd.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
That factoid is soon made very, very clear; the slide and the ball pit are also red, as is the huge sectional at the center of the family room, the chandelier above, the velvet ropes that partition the area, the dramatically swooping drapes, and the nearby pair of ginormous bean bags.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2025
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Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
By collecting their earliest recordings straight through the later years, and tossing in booklets loaded with history-minded factoids, each of the sets lent a shape and narrative to an artist’s musical career.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2025
Announcer Kevin Frazier, who missed no chance to remind you that this was Hollywood’s biggest party — as opposed, by implication, to the Oscars and Emmys, chained to their dull academies — chimed in with factoids about presenters and winners, like a wedding DJ working the crowd.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
That factoid is soon made very, very clear; the slide and the ball pit are also red, as is the huge sectional at the center of the family room, the chandelier above, the velvet ropes that partition the area, the dramatically swooping drapes, and the nearby pair of ginormous bean bags.
—Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for factoid
Noun
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The misconception that only older caregivers need support is dangerously flawed.—
Joseph Coughlin,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Passive income streams are set-it-and-forget-it Perhaps the biggest misconception is that passive income streams run on autopilot forever once they’re established.—
Amy Landino, Contributor,
CNBC,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Kennedy’s reaction to measles outbreaks alarms public health experts because the former lawyer embraces myths that vitamin A and cod liver oil are effective against the virus.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
13 Mar. 2025
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When the team compared the genetic obesity risk scores with the data gathered from the questionnaires, quite a few myths got busted.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Individuals with this intense flying phobia might engage in different rituals or superstitions to get ready for a flight, Taylor said.—
Cathy Cassata,
Health,
4 Mar. 2025
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In times of uncertainty, strategic use of superstitions can counteract confusion and paralysis.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Here are three ways the slippery slope fallacy might be hurting your relationship and how to deal with it.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The psychological concept of arrival fallacy tells us that awards and milestones do not bring lasting happiness.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The lawsuit claims medical errors happened during the procedure, which led to the bowel perforation.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2025
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All the results were just outside margins of error.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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It is now being reissued in a deluxe edition by prestige publisher Folio Society, with illustrations by Doug Bell, occasioning Miéville to sit for an interview looking back at the book’s impact on his career, the cultural influence of speculative fiction, and what’s next for him and his work.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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Back then, the fiction that Russia wasn’t an aggressor or party to the conflict, along with insufficient pressure on Moscow in the form of sanctions or the provision of lethal military supplies to Ukraine, ultimately meant Minsk never addressed the root cause of the conflict.—
Clare Sebastian,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The writer’s task is the sculpting of these untruths into a work of art, into a cohesive story that suspends the readers’ belief, gently ushers them into the imaginary and holds them there.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
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The invention soon collapses under the burden of its own untruth, wasting time in which the victims of its fiction could have taken more effective action to protect themselves.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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That would be you, the audience, fed a royal jelly concocted of dream, fantasy, myth, popcorn, even delusion.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Many of these protagonists endure the tedium and humiliation of involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations, losing days and years to paralyzing inertia, and experiencing terrifying delusions of persecution and betrayal.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Factoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factoid. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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