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"But if it was true, we were going to lose our lives."

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

It’s also true that Porsche has tried to absorb some of those import costs rather than pass them directly to North American consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The UN has just called for the predominant world map to be replaced with one that more accurately reflects the true size of continents like Africa.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

She struggled afterward to be taken seriously and that may be true, but I’d argue an opposite point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Dissenters argued that true freedom and independence for Filipinos should be more important than American imperialism.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Jamil may be blunt, but her point is truer now than ever.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 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

In many respects, this “Lord of the Flies” is truer to the book than the Brook film.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

The echoing aphorism is apparently nowhere truer than in cavernous Olympic hockey ice arenas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

"And yet, it is truly said that blood runs truer than oaths."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

He said he’s closed his “circle of trust” and expressed regret for actions that, he said, “haven’t been the truest reflection of the person I feel like I am, and how my mother raised me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Lamb is a celebrity sheriff in its truest, most American sense.

From Slate ● Jul. 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

Then he smiled that goofy shy smile that I felt like came from the truest part of him.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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 have lived with our trues heroes—the lower middle-classes.”

From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

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 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

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

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

See if propeller is trued up to within 1⁄8′′.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

The plates are very readily fixed to the circular table h, and the edge of the flange trued up much quicker than by the ordinary means of chipping.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

The alternative is to ream out the bosses and upper end of rod a trifle larger after holes are trued up and fit oversize wrist pins.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?

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

This facing head is also used frequently for truing the flanges of cylinders which are to be bored, and for similar work.

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

That is the genius and the glory of the artisan, to perfect each detail ad unguem, like a poet truing up a sonnet.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

Power grindstones usually have truing devices attached to them, Fig.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

If the lathe has raised Vs on the bed it will be sufficient to true them only, without truing the flat surfaces.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose