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fact-check

fact-check is the alternative form of fact check.

Meaning of fact check

Noun

fact check (plural fact checks)

  1. A verification of the factuality of specific information.

Verb

fact-check (third-person singular simple present fact-checks, present participle fact-checking, simple past and past participle fact-checked)

  1. (transitive) To verify the factuality of specific information.
    • There are the tiniest statements, such as claiming that Dartmouth is technically the only railway station in Britain never to have had a railway line, that need to be fact-checked (and in this case debunked - at least Hull Corporation Pier was similar).2020 May 6, Tim Dunn, “The Architecture The Railways Built”, in Rail, page 76

Forms of fact-check

Noun
pluralfact-checks
alternative formfact check
Verb
third-person singular presentfact-checks
present participlefact-checking
past participlefact-checked
pastfact-checked

Questions about fact-check

What does fact-check mean?
Fact-check means to verify the factuality of specific information.
What is fact-check the alternative form of?
Fact-check is the alternative form of fact check.
What part of speech is fact-check?
Fact-check is a verb.
What is the past tense of fact-check?
The past tense of fact-check is fact-checked.

Words near fact-check in the dictionary

  1. fact patterns
  2. fact sheet
  3. fact sheets
  4. fact table
  5. fact tables
  6. fact-check
  7. fact-checked
  8. fact-checker
  9. fact-checkers
  10. fact-checking
  11. fact-checks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fact-check (page history and authors); fact check (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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