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For Asare, true reparatory justice must prioritise human connection and healing over financial transactions.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The opposite is just as likely to be true if open-weight models take off, though.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Put simply: It’s more difficult to maintain the true intimacy than it’s ever been.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Their conversation explores characters who hide their true nature behind carefully constructed personas, the role of technology in enabling obsession and revenge, and the social rituals that define contemporary London.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
I wanted to snap that I had told him not to, that the accusations weren’t true, but I couldn’t get the words out.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The tradition calls people to shed the performance of acceptability and live from a truer place.
From Salon ● Jun. 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 primacy of youth was never truer than in the Romantic era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
“You never spoke a truer word, boy,” someone muttered dryly to Dumbledore behind Harry.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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Jan Morris once said that the British Empire’s truest morality, real or imagined, was the morality of fair play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
I think that’s what they’re seeing when they connect at the beginning of Season 3; they’re the truest version of themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
But beyond sating the national pride that had been pricked by the Soviet advance, the prospect of being involved in something that was so untried, untested, and unexplored connected with Katherine’s truest self.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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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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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
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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Using the Lap.—The roller thus made is turned rapidly in a lathe, and the cylinder to be trued is brought up to it and the roller supplied freely with emery powder and oil.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
Smoothing planes are, as the name implies, used to simply smoothen the work surface after it has been trued.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
It will be found best to have the V slightly greater than 90° at the base until the final cut is made, at which time it can be trued up.
From A Course In Wood Turning by Archie S. Milton
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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Nearly two months were consumed in truing and smoothing the stone, as all millers in the mill had struck at once when they became acquainted with the character of the changes I proposed to make.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
The broken lines illustrate a condition after colleting and before truing.
From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Walter J. Kleinlein
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
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
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