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veracity

[vuh-ras-i-tee] / vəˈræs ɪ ti /


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

From Slate Jun. 8, 2026

In 2023, Donner filed a lawsuit in a Washington, D.C., court that contended his dismissal was linked to several instances in which he challenged the veracity of the network’s coverage.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2026

Being bold with predictions is fine, but so is being skeptical of their veracity.

From Barron's Mar. 19, 2026

After years of silence, Gimlin later emerged as a hero to the Bigfoot community, testifying to the film’s veracity at gatherings.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

But there is a harsh message in the veracity of collars and photographs.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

He had great good-nature too, though of hot temper and so full of multifarious veracities; a substratum of inarticulate good sense withal, and much magnanimity run wild, or run to seed.

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

For who had thought before her of making women's stitches write or paint a great historical event, crowded with homely details which now are dubbed archaeological veracities?

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman

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 Ruskin, John

But my business is only to state veracities and necessities; I neither look for the acceptance of the one, nor hope for the nearness of the other.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John




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