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truthful

[trooth-fuhl] / ˈtruθ fəl /


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At one point he passes by “Cloudcuckoo-city,” high above the earth, and remarks: “I was put in mind of Aristophanes, a wise and truthful poet whose works are quite unreasonably distrusted.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“That wouldn’t be truthful, and that would make you in the wrong,” Collins recalls telling Walters.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Grasso said the "turning point" for her was being truthful with her psychiatrist about her history and symptoms.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

She based her decision on "a parallel analysis of several channels that have been posting truthful information for a long time."

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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