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
  • 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
  • Google, in a brief for the justices, strongly denied the factual basis for the lawsuit.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the judge also gave credence to a factual basis for a self-defense argument.
    — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Bowers’ lawyer told the jury that a life sentence is much less of a factual determination, but a moral one.
    — Sabrina Souza, CNN, 17 July 2023
  • The allegations involve multiple states and a large cast of characters, but the factual record is well known to both sides.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • If a series of factual questions on a test can be answered by a chatbot, was the test a worthwhile measure of learning anyway?
    — WIRED, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Milo and Khalili are witnesses and archivists who fill the film with more than just factual recounts.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Keep in mind, the factual background of this case is really important.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Advertisement Despite this factual void — or perhaps because of it — the book is proving to be a hit.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • Demos of both Google and Microsoft’s tools have been called out for producing factual errors.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Before critical thinking can begin, the first step is to ignore the lure of the site and check out what others say about its alleged factual reports.
    — Anastasia Kozyreva, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Bratt’s team began to button up witness accounts and stress-test factual evidence against the law.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Tom has been paramount in growing Naked from a smaller factual entertainment label to one of the biggest in the business.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • The motion offers a preview of some of the factual and legal arguments that the defense is expected to raise at trial, in the event that the motion is denied.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the factual assertions in the ad the were false, and a local public-safety official named L.B. Sullivan sued for defamation.
    — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023

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