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fact-checks

fact-checks is the plural of fact-check.

fact-checks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-checks

What is fact-checks the plural of?
Fact-checks is the plural of fact-check.

Words near fact-checks in the dictionary

  1. fact-check
  2. fact-checked
  3. fact-checker
  4. fact-checkers
  5. fact-checking
  6. fact-checks
  7. fact-finder
  8. fact-finders
  9. fact-finding
  10. fact-free
  11. fact-pattern

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fact-checks (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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