historical fact

collocation in English

meaningsofhistoricalandfact

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historical
adjective
uk
/hɪˈstɒr.ɪ.kəl/us
/hɪˈstɔːr.ɪ.kəl/
connected with studying or representing things from ...
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fact
noun[C or U]
uk
/fækt/us
/fækt/
something that is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there ...
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(Definition ofhistoricalandfactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhistorical fact

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This is simply ahistoricalfact.
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This it was that shaped or twisted everyhistoricalfact.
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As a matter ofhistoricalfact, silver did not drive out gold.
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It is ahistoricalfactthat the comet appeared in the spring of 1066.
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A revelation, were one to occur, would be anhistoricalfact, not a speculative opinion.
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But such an accumulation of anecdotal material does not constitutehistoricalfact.
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It appears irrelevant that this ideology is at odds with bothhistoricalfactand contemporary demographics.
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However, thathistoricalfacthas changed with later sociolinguistic realities, acculturation and diversification of the language.
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In point ofhistoricalfact, there was no continuity, and none of the authors represented here suggest that there was.
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Clearly this conditional dispositional evaluation does not seek, as well as is possible, simply to establish anhistoricalfact.
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That is ahistoricalfact.
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That is thehistoricalfact.
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That is anhistoricalfact.
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This is anhistoricalfact.
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It is ahistoricalfact.
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I merely refer tohistoricalfact.
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There is another interestinghistoricalfact.
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It is based onhistoricalfact.
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This again is an interestinghistoricalfact.
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But that is anhistoricalfact.
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It is a matter ofhistoricalfact.
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However, we must accept thehistoricalfact.
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I simply stated anhistoricalfact.
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