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His beloved Milwaukee Brewers had just launched a promotion unlike any other in American professional sports—and it sounded too good to be true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
"Her story is not true, absolutely not true," he insists.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
I think some know for a fact now that it’s not true, but they’re not going to admit it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
In a deposition, Kao later admitted that wasn’t true.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“And anyway, I don’t care what you say. I think it’s true what she told me about the elephant. She’s not fibbing, she’s not making it up, I know she isn’t. I can tell.”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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“There’s a great energy that comes from being in a room with people. I think it’s a different energy than anything else, particularly true and truer every day in the increasingly screen-based and mediated world.”
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
Your eyes aren't deceiving you if Labour's red seems a little deeper and the Conservatives' blue a little truer.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
“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
“You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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But which version of her Fielder — and, by extension, the audience — sees, and which version is the truest, remains up for debate.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
“I don’t make it easy,” McIlroy said, and this was the truest thing he said all week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Characters with strong personalities that are not simplistically likable feel the truest to Jimenez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
"Even the truest knight cannot protect a king against himself," Ned said.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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The trues had it: 70% in Caracas, 63% in Lima.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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"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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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
As each surface is trued, it should be carefully smoothed with the cutter set to cut fine shavings.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
When an oilstone becomes hollow or uneven by use, it may be trued by rubbing it on a flat board covered with sharp sand, or on sandpaper tacked over a block of wood.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
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
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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The use of airplanes in this country will require men for rigging, for truing up the wires and struts.
From Opportunities in Aviation by Arthur Sweetser
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 crank-pin truing tool that may be worked by hand is shown at Fig.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Special grinders are used for truing these hardened centers.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
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