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单词 fact-checker
释义

fact-checkern.

Brit. /ˈfak(t)ˌtʃɛkə/, U.S. /ˈfæk(t)ˌtʃɛkər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fact n., checker n.1
Etymology: < fact n. + checker n.1 Compare slightly earlier fact-checking n.
A person who verifies facts, esp. in the context of journalism; a person engaged in fact-checking.
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1938 Collier's 5 Mar. 30/1 Today Time's original 18,000 subscribers have grown to 700,000, its editors from two to thirty-one,..its researchers and fact-checkers from ten to twenty-two.
1970 New York Mag. 2 Mar. 29/1 At the news magazine where I had been a fact-checker, I discovered that..I had to be a researcher for at least three years before I would even be able to dream about becoming one of their few women reporters.
1991 Premiere Dec. 108/3 Then the fact checker calls and asks me if I flew caviar to Italy.
2010 Observer 21 Mar. 39/2 The blogosphere has introduced a new and disruptive force of fact-checkers, claim-debunkers, story-breakers, rumour-mongers and cyber-satirists.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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