How to Use factual in a Sentence

factual

adjective
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  • That statement is not factual.
  • But should viewers even think of the series as a factual piece of work?
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The factual content of the reviews led the court to that decision.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Lawyers for Stapp and the city admitted that text was factual.
    — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Part of the reason the court struggled with the limits of the law was because the factual record of the cases was not very developed.
    — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 27 Feb. 2024
  • See, most of the time, when there are no major factual disputes in a case, the law is clear, and the defendant pleads guilty.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Google, in a brief for the justices, strongly denied the factual basis for the lawsuit.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2022
  • For us, just being factual and real and honest from day one is the best.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024
  • The panel has laid out the factual groundwork that shows Trump and some of his acolytes set the stage for and encouraged the riotous mob.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2022
  • Some of the challenges will be factual and others will be legal.
    — Jeffrey Bellin, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The blog post announcing the new tool shows Bard making a factual error.
    — Stephen Ornes, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
  • But there’s more to the issue than its factual merit, according to Silas House, who talked to Politico about the book in 2020.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 15 July 2024
  • He’s read all the books and was concentrating on the factual layer.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
  • By using the format of a drama to tell a factual story, Diop is able to arrive at an even more poignant version of the truth.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • This problem will be fixed at some point, but right now factual statements are not to be trusted from chat AIs.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • So what is the factual basis upon which these laws are being passed?
    — ABC News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • End factual statements on a firm down note instead of letting your voice bounce up into a query.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The stereotyping has occurred despite the lack of a factual anchor.
    — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • The judge will build a factual record, and carefully weigh the arguments put forth by DOJ and rebutted by Google.
    — Alden Abbott, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Trump has also made factual mistakes while on the stump during his off-script tangents.
    — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But some tests showed that getting factual information from the chatbot seemed to be hit or miss.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, people tend to regard those who disagree with them on these factual matters as not simply wrong but wicked.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • People keep falling for the mental mistake of assuming that just because some of the essays are factual, all the rest have to be.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Sometimes the entry would be terse and factual, offering no more than a place of origin and an estimate of the number of dead.
    — Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
  • At least Elordi’s childhood knowledge of The King (no burgers) was factual.
    — Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023
  • For all their bluster, critics of Life didn’t cite factual errors.
    — Tom Stanton, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2024
  • For example, one factual issue is: Did Trump know his claims about the election being stolen were false?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • How to burst those bubbles or bring people factual news may be a difficult task.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • There was an eyewitness who claimed something that was just not factual.
    — CBS News, 5 June 2022
  • And last week, Baca filed a motion request a finding of factual innocence, a move that could ease the path to financial compensation for the decades Duran spent behind bars.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

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