factual accuracy

collocation in English

meaningsoffactualandaccuracy

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factual
adjective
uk
/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
using or consisting ...
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accuracy
noun[U]
uk
/ˈæk.jə.rə.si/us
/ˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/
the fact of being exact ...
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(Definition offactualandaccuracyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffactual accuracy

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In the authorized discourse of academic history, we expect to find circumspection,factualaccuracy, seriousness, objectivity, a cer tain abstraction, sanitized accounts of motive, coherence, rationality, and so on.
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Campbell thus introduced an unambiguous moral language of truth and lies into debates aboutfactualaccuracy.
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Bachrach explores the ways in which the authors made extensive deployment of documents within their narrative accounts to bolster their claims tofactualaccuracy.
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Drafts are shown to the department being audited so that it can comment onfactualaccuracy.
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If there was disagreement onfactualaccuracy, the draft would come back to me.
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The clause sensibly attempts to deal merely withfactualaccuracy.
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Unfortunately, this was overlooked when the draft text was checked forfactualaccuracy.
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The programme then listed a number of other points which, although theirfactualaccuracyis not in question, were not relevant to the accident.
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I was complaining of his description of the motives of the people concerned, but not of hisfactualaccuracy.
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It would be less appalling if there were some concern forfactualaccuracyin some of the documents.
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Draft passages were shown to some people and organisations, including government officials who had provided evidence to the review to confirm points offactualaccuracy.
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Discussions onfactualaccuracyas set out in the established protocol are taking place.
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There can be no doubt about thefactualaccuracyof his intervention or the serious conclusion which he has drawn.
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It was calculable to a high degree offactualaccuracy.
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He did so with considerable eloquence, fluency and, for most of the time,factualaccuracy.
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It is perfectly normal for a person producing a report to consult a department to make quite certain that some matters concerningfactualaccuracyor statistical accuracy are correct.
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Although itsfactualaccuracywas questioned periodically during the following centuries, it has been accepted (with some modifications) by most scholars since.
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The withdrawal followed a campaign by scientists who criticised the articles'factualaccuracyand the process behind their acceptance.
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Good historical writing requires not justfactualaccuracybut also a command of the scholarly literature, persuasive analysis and interpretations, and clear and engaging prose.
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Anecdotes, memories, funny episodes, are strung in a rough timeline, with more emphasis on eccentric characters, lovely scenery, thanfactualaccuracy.
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