Over several days, here and at other companies, I hear this factoid repeated like a campaign talking point. |
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But why, you may ask, has this apparently trivial factoid ruffled the feathers of the good burghers of Oslo? |
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I'm informed from a usually reliable source that a factoid is an empirical claim that is often repeated but is in fact false. |
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A little-known factoid shows that roughly 90 percent of all worldwide markets are located outside the United States. |
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The site has work sheets and activities that can be printed off as well as a factoid on the maths page, which gives a different fact each time the page is loaded. |
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This is a fairly well-known factoid in alternative news media. |
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Prices, timetables, documentation requirements, booking advice, and most any other factoid you could possibly need are perfectly intelligible and easy to find. |
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An attention-grabbing factoid from Oxfam that the world's 85 richest people have more wealth than poorest 3.5 billion—went viral. |
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And by consumer and supplier agreement, no fact, factoid, or truthiness is too small to register. |
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What is wrong and embarrassing is the President of the United States reciting a massively discredited factoid. |
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When does a piece of data go from being a factoid to being a fact? |
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In this broader metaphorical sense, the word suggests a claim that is in the nature of folklore, factoid or urban legend. |
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To paraphrase, a factoid is an assumption that is repeated and reported so often it becomes accepted as a truth. |
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The text contains suggestive but non-explicit images, and every factoid is written as a single paragraph separated by three center-aligned dots. |
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