factoid
Origin of factoid
1Other words from factoid
- fac·toi·dal, adjective
Words Nearby factoid
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How to use factoid in a sentence
Factoids like this often form the basis of conservative and libertarian arguments about government waste or overreach.
Humans solve problems by adding complexity, even when it’s against our best interests | Christopher Ingraham | April 16, 2021 | Washington PostThe answers to factoid questions are easy to find in knowledge bases compared with nuanced complex open-domain questions such as the one in the passage indexing example provided by Google.
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT? | Dawn Anderson | October 29, 2020 | Search Engine LandEach of these factoids gets joined up with billions of others in a sprawling, interconnected network of facts.
This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop | Will Heaven | September 4, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe Democratic PACs had outraised them, which is an interesting little factoid in and of itself.
What is wrong and embarrassing is the President of the United States reciting a massively discredited factoid.
No, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men | Christina Hoff Sommers | February 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Though it does note that she has a tattoo—and that factoid is helpfully paired with the phrase “tough as nails.”
And by consumer and supplier agreement, no fact, factoid, or truthiness is too small to register.
Can the Heart and Blood-Pressure Pill Propranolol Cure Racism? | Kent Sepkowitz | March 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMcCarthy contributes the factoid, “We have four million more government jobs in America than manufacturing jobs.”
British Dictionary definitions for factoid
/ (ˈfæktɔɪd) /
a piece of unreliable information believed to be true because of the way it is presented or repeated in print
Origin of factoid
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