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[troo] / tru /




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This may be true, but it’s definitely something a myth-maker would say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

If that’s true, may Workman’s sweet, intoxicating humor hasten its arrival.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

It found the club had concealed the true state of its finances, saying City were "significantly in breach of both the Premier League's and UEFA's spending limits".

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The dynamic between Leo, who runs a bar filled with young queer and trans employees, and Clive, whose teenage son is grappling with his own sexuality, required true intensity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The American part of me wanted to argue that it wasn’t true.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

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

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

Nothing was truer; as it turned out, Milkman’s feet could hardly make it over the stony road covered with second growth.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

In so many ways, the works that remain tell the deepest, truest story of yearning, resilience, love—of all that cannot be spoken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

The truest of blue-and-gold bloods, Gabriela decided in third grade that she wanted to play for UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 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

But he wondered what her truest feelings were, exactly, and what she meant by separate-but-together.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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

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

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

The pulley is now put to its place on the shaft and keyed, the edges trued up, and the face turned off with the utmost exactness.

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

Illustrations of this principle are as follows: Before proceeding with other processes, a working face and working edge and as many other surfaces as will finally appear in the finished piece, should be trued up.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

If a saw arbor becomes heated enough to impair the tension of the saw, it has been hot enough to impair its own truth, and should be examined and trued if necessary.

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

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

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

Allow a little "spare" on the boards for truing up.

From Things To Make by Archibald Williams

The smoothing plane is used for smoothing rather than truing work, and is made shorter than the truing plane so as to be handier in using.

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

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




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