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facts

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plural of fact

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a collection of factual knowledge about something after reading the facts on the situation, the president concluded that an outbreak of hostilities was all but certain

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Recent Examples of facts Get the facts, loop in legal, draft a statement, route it through five layers of approval and release it by end of day. — Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Those facts do not mean that criminal penalties alone caused Colorado’s worsening trend. — Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026 From bizarre medical tests to a mass phobia of beans, here are 14 surprising facts that reveal just how inventive, eccentric, and fascinating the ancient Greeks really were. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 So immigration stories get softened over time, with trauma turning into adventure and hard facts blurred into entertaining myths. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026 Data breaches hand attackers the right facts, and generative AI can now supply a matching face and voice. — Caryn Seidman Becker, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 Don’t just show one side without the facts from the other side. — Mckinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026 Look at the facts, examine the record, and draw the proper conclusions. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 While outlandish, most of the basic facts here conform to reporting about the real-life events. — Hayden Field, The Verge, 8 Oct. 2026

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But creating a government database of gun owners also could put people at risk, if the information is hacked and leaked, Leary said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
When an email involves your Social Security information, go directly to the government website and check for yourself.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

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