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[troo] / tru /




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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

“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

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

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

The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

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

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

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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