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fact check

noun, verb — 2 senses

fact check

nounalso spelled fact-check
1

A verification of the factuality of specific information.

Derived terms
fact checker, fact checking

fact-check

verb
1

To verify the factuality of specific information.

  • 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).2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76:

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