How to Use fact-check in a Sentence

fact-check

verb
  • Macron just grabbed Trump’s arm and fact-checked him to his face in real time.
    — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Any fact-checks will be weighed against moments where there were none at all.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • There’s no way to fact-check the secrets; Frank takes those sharing them at their word.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But the beliefs of the faithful live in an arena beyond a fact-check.
    — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 23 July 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Meta.
    — USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Heinrich drew the ire of Fox opinion hosts by tweeting a fact-check on some of Trump’s claims.
    — David Bauder, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The fact-check notes that Meta still doesn’t operate in China.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The athlete said that his father would come across crazy tabloid stories from time to time and call him to fact-check.
    — Eva Hartman, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2024
  • Meta is rolling this out in the US first; elsewhere, the fact-checking system will remain.
    — Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • False, according to a fact-checking page the agency has set up.
    — Miles Bryan, Vox, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant fromMeta.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Our politics team fact-checked these and other claims from Trump’s speech.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Will Tapper and Bash fact-check in real time, a Herculean task when Trump is talking?
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
  • When Wynn-Williams was still able to do interviews, a reporter for Business Insider also asked her whether the book was fact-checked.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2025

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