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fact-checked

fact-checked is the simple past and past participle of fact-check.

Meaning of fact-check

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

Questions about fact-checked

What is fact-checked the simple past and past participle of?
Fact-checked is the simple past and past participle of fact-check.

Words near fact-checked in the dictionary

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

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