truth claim
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The dissenting patient assumed that spirit animals were folklore; you, for all I know, may accept their agency as a truth claim.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
Now let’s make a big, improvable, subjective truth claim: “Woman” has a more interesting range of inventory, aesthetically speaking, in its room than “man” does.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2013
He preceded his troops to the city, however, and might therefore, with equal propriety and regard for truth, claim the sole glory of its capture.
From The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner by Wilkinson, John
What was equally encouraging, he could now, in real truth, claim being employed in a diplomatic capacity.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
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