fact-check

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fact-check (plural fact-checks)

  1. Alternative spelling of fact check

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fact-check (third-person singular simple present fact-checks, present participle fact-checking, simple past and past participle fact-checked)

  1. (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).

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