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It’s true: They don’t make ’em like they used to.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’s making an effort to stay true to his title.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That is hilarious and, true or not, I would agree it’s a bit of an overshare.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Using similar observing methods, Roman could identify planets in tighter orbits, including true Jupiter analogs that are currently hidden by the glare of their stars.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
It was true enough that Otto was alone.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
As a spinner, he was brought into the XI for the turning conditions in Colombo but England's semi-final is likely to be on a truer surface in Mumbai on Thursday.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
A truer picture of the potential job losses may be in the number of central-office positions that are being “closed” or eliminated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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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
“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
"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
Because food and poop are the truest things about you.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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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 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
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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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After the boring is completed the edge E is trued by the large-face milling cutter M bolted to the spindle sleeve.
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
The invert was trued up by drawing along the runners a semi-circular templet having a radius of 21½ ins.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
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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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
Allow a little "spare" on the boards for truing up.
From Things To Make by Archibald Williams
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?
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.
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