fact-check
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See also: fact check
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
fact-check (plural fact-checks)
- Alternative spelling of fact check
Verb[edit]
fact-check (third-person singular simple present fact-checks, present participle fact-checking, simple past and past participle fact-checked)
- (transitive) To verify the factuality of specific information.
- 2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:
- There are the tiniest statements, such as claiming that Dartmouth is technically the only railway station in Britain never to have had a railway line, that need to be fact-checked (and in this case debunked - at least Hull Corporation Pier was similar).
Alternative forms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to verify the veracity of specific information
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References[edit]
- “fact-check”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.