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fact is stranger than fiction

fact is stranger than fiction is the alternative form of truth is stranger than fiction.

Meaning of truth is stranger than fiction

Proverb

truth is stranger than fiction

  1. Sometimes actual events are stranger than imagined ones.
    • It has often been said that truth is stranger than fiction. But what writer of the most extravagant fiction could have thought up such a life as that of William Kiffin? A poor orphan becoming one of the wealthiest merchants in the country; […]1989, B. A. Ramsbottom, Stranger Than Fiction: The Life of William Kiffin, Gospel Standard Publications, →ISBN, page 7

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Fact is stranger than fiction is the alternative form of truth is stranger than fiction.

Words near fact is stranger than fiction in the dictionary

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