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veracity

[vuh-ras-i-tee] / vəˈræs ɪ ti /


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If LaPorte’s findings support the veracity of the purported will, the already protracted legal battle will continue on.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Smith, for his part, is dubious about the veracity of the ransom notes - and believes Guthrie was ferreted down to Mexico where she could more easily be kept out of sight.

From BBC Jun. 25, 2026

Ross has been entrusted to judge others’ veracity, yet her own candor is in question.

From Slate Jun. 8, 2026

But "at some point, the markets are going to start to question the veracity of some of his statements," he added.

From Barron's Apr. 2, 2026

The veracity of this and other reports of relatively recent Ruess sightings, needless to say, is extremely suspect.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

We must wake up to the iron veracities of this war," he wrote, "and then face them not merely without flinching but with redoubled energy of will and effort.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this aspect of it, then, I say it is the simplest and nakedest of lovely veracities.

From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by John Ruskin

Yes," we went on, "all the ascertained veracities are immutable.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

A man of Scotch type; the broad accent, with its sagacities, veracities, with its steadfastly fixed moderation, and its sly twinkles of defensive humor, is still audible to us through the foreign wrappages.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 by Thomas Carlyle

On make-believes of all kinds it based the edifices of all kinds of eternal veracities.

From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells




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