fact-check
verb [with object]
Investigate (an issue) in order to verify the facts: I didn’t fact-check the assertions in the editorial reporters can’t be expected to fact-check every quotation...
- It's not the job of a paper to fact-check the utterance of every person quoted.
- They would be asked to substantiate each claim, and there would be a jury of statisticians to fact-check whatever they said.
- The folks there debunk and fact-check articles and speeches by prominent politicos and commentators from all corners of the political spectrum.
Derivatives
fact checker
- Maybe you need a fact checker to check your work?
- He's the new fact checker for the New York Times.
- I like your publication but you could use a good fact checker.
- in the bag
- in the balance
- in the belief that
- in the blink of an eye (or in a blink)
- in the box seat
- in the buff
- in the business of
- in the cactus
- in the can
- in the cart
- in the catbird seat
- in the cause of
- in the clear
- in the clouds
- in the club (or the pudding club)
- in the clutch
- in the cold light of day
- in the concrete
- in (the) course of ——
- in the dark
- in the dogbox
- in the driver's seat
- in the driving (or driver's) seat
- in the end
- in the event