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For Asare, true reparatory justice must prioritise human connection and healing over financial transactions.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The opposite is just as likely to be true if open-weight models take off, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
That’s no longer true: A limited number of companies now drive most of its returns as they fuel the buildout of artificial intelligence, and an even smaller handful “chip” in the rest — pun intended.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Their conversation explores characters who hide their true nature behind carefully constructed personas, the role of technology in enabling obsession and revenge, and the social rituals that define contemporary London.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
It was really, achingly, endlessly true, and it was always during roll calls that the accumulated misery threatened to overwhelm me.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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“I think cats are like works of art that inspire you to be truer to yourself,” Meyer says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
It is a truer gauge of the sector versus a more widely cited ETF External link, which is heavily weighted toward Amazon.com External link and Tesla.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
But look past all that technical prowess, and you’ll find a remarkably introspective story about the complexities of integrity, examining the choices we make and the sacrifices we endure to become truer versions of ourselves.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
The echoing aphorism is apparently nowhere truer than in cavernous Olympic hockey ice arenas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
“You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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As Lawson said of the novel 125 years ago, “the book is true to Australia—the truest I ever read.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“For better or for worse, ‘The Complex’ is my truest expression of myself as an artist yet because I wasn’t conscious of influences,” Mahajan says on a Zoom call from his home in Providence, R.I.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
"It's a team in the truest sense of the word. There are no big stars, no freeloaders," Skauge said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
This is the truest thing Mahmoud has said.
From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell
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Just three logical functions, called AND, OR and NOT, are needed to process Boole's "trues" and "falses," or Is and Os.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"I don't care," were among the first words Cousin Magdalen made out clearly, "there isn't two trues, and what I'm telling is real true true, as true as true."
From Hoodie by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer
And if peoples 'zinks so much about trues, they shouldn't vant me to say what isn't true about being in fun when I wasn't in fun.
From Hoodie by Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer
I have lived with our trues heroes—the lower middle-classes.”
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
With the pyramids the Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If you've had your Banshee cylinder trued and welded, put the crank into the bottom case and rotate the crank using the rods to do so.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At least as many of its surfaces should be trued as are necessary for the "lay out."
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
When the work is centred, it should, for reasons already explained, have its end faces trued up.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
If there are two keys the edges and one face may be trued up as just described, and both keys k, Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Presently he turned and spoke to the man: “Put your men at work trueing up the roadbed on the next section back, until further orders.”
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
Some were engaged in "trueing" the four great foundation beams of what was evidently to be a large building.
From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White
Her strappy sandals are making lots of noise as she runs around the class looking for a truing wheel--to give her pattern the appropriate curve.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A balance of this description may be poised as it is and often will produce better timing results than would be gained by perfect truing and subsequent regulation during readjustment of the metals.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
A set of valve truing and valve-seat reaming cutters is shown at Fig.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Slip the spider on the armature shaft and secure it solidly with the setscrew so that the shaft will not turn in the spider when truing up the armature core.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
John hath written a sonnet on Philadelphus' wife and our Lady Amaryllis is truing his meter for him.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Frank X. Leyendecker
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