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
What was equally encouraging, he could now, in real truth, claim being employed in a diplomatic capacity.
From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne
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
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