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While a lot of her comments ring true, ultimately, we just need to get over the word “fat.”

Critics are thus hitting alarms on the Obama security policy that ring true in domestic politics.

That overpowering, but ultimately ill-placed, nostalgia seems to also ring true for executive producer Rick Rubin.

As you go through these photographs, those words echo in your head because they still ring true.

For these older characters, though, some constants still ring true.

An unusual story in which the author has pictured real men, who ring true in the time of danger.

A performance that has self as its central motive can never ring true or achieve any lasting success.

She left the room just now,' he returned, with a sleepy inflection; but to Mildred's delicate perception it did not ring true.

There was something assumed, something that did not ring true about his apparent heartiness.

Well, I guess onions wouldnt do that to a fellow, he said with a confidence that didnt quite ring true.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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