kernel of truth

collocation in English

meaningsofkernelandtruth

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kernel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɜː.nəl/us
/ˈkɝː.nəl/
the part of a nut that is inside the shell and can ...
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truth
noun
uk
/truːθ/us
/truːθ/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofkernelandtruthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofkernel of truth

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Stereotypes lacking even akerneloftruthare hard to sustain and unlikely to spread.
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Each of these scenarios contains akerneloftruth, although the reality is considerably more complex.
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There is an importantkerneloftruthin his paper that is worth saving.
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It makes me sick if only because there is somewhere there an unpleasant, albeit small,kerneloftruthbehind this malignant criticism.
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Some of the arguments are exaggerated, but there is akerneloftruthin them.
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He took a certain journalistic licence, but there was akerneloftruthin what he wrote.
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There is more than akerneloftruthin the things that he has been saying.
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His mailbag may cause him to regret making that statement, but it has akerneloftruth, and those with some honesty will recognise that.
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There is akerneloftruthin that, but the matter is a little more complicated.
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It is an old saying that money does not pay for everything, and, like all old sayings, there is more than akerneloftruthin it.
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No clear evidence indicates physiognomy works, though recent studies have suggested that facial appearances do contain akerneloftruthabout a person's personality.
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There is somekerneloftruthin the story.
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Enemy images may have akerneloftruth, but overstate the negative sides of the opponent.
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They nevertheless contain akerneloftruth.
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Indeed, until the 1940s no one knew how to prove, even to state properly, thekerneloftruthin this proposition about perfectly competitive market.
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Those late literary accounts are fanciful but historians believe that they contain akerneloftruth.
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Our analysis shows that kernels of truth exist in both the claim that livestock production decreases the food supply and the claim that livestock production increases it.
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The stereotypes may have kernels of truth to them, but they are not wholly correct, and so are heavily misleading.
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