Collocations withfact
These are words often used in combination withfact.
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accomplished fact
The issue had already the air of an accomplished fact.
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arithmetical fact
There cannot be any argument about that; it is a simple arithmetical fact.
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brute fact
That is simple, brute fact.
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demonstrable fact
That is a demonstrable fact, and it was so even before the increase in the retail price index over the past five months.
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disturbing fact
That is a disturbing fact.
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empirical fact
It is an empirical fact that a person may continue to pursue bad habits even after experiencing their painful consequences.
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historical fact
This is simply a historical fact.
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incontrovertible fact
That is an incontrovertible fact.
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indisputable fact
Given this indisputable fact, how is it possible for our fears to be assuaged by mere assurances which may in any case be ignored in subsequent years?
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inescapable fact
But the inescapable fact of war is its violence.
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irrefutable fact
Even though there is no such thing as 'pure knowledge' or 'irrefutable fact', the factuality of historical events are not irrelevant-some things are more likely to have happened than others.
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mere fact
The mere fact that something is good is enough to explain its existence.
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objective fact
It may seem bizarre, but it is an objective fact since it respects historical proportions.
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observable fact
Its principal strength is the way that it contrasts bodies of knowledge, juxtaposes metaphor and observable fact, and pulls together strands of opinion across eras and contexts.
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plain fact
This is not to excuse bogus originality designed to embellish plain fact.
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proven fact
Only from the early nineteenth century on was this law seen as a proven fact.
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salient fact
That is the salient fact.
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scientific fact
Why distort and indeed mislead public education and discussion by confusing scientific fact and science fiction?
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simple fact
That is a simple fact.
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startling fact
That is a startling fact.
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stylized fact
In addition, it is sometimes conjectured that chartist-fundamentalist models have difficulties in mimicking the stylized fact of financial markets in a nonstationary setting.
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unavoidable fact
But he accepts tyranny as an unavoidable fact and develops the technical conditions under which it can function.
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undeniable fact
No amount of research can change one undeniable fact.
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undisputed fact
That is an undisputed fact.
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unpleasant fact
Unemployment is the unpleasant fact.
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very fact
The very fact of its popularity testified to its harmfulness.
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well-established fact
It is a well-established fact that hereditary forms account for 5% to 10% of all breast cancer cases (5;8;39;40).
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well-known fact
This is a well-known fact from the theory of linear topological spaces.
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