factoid
实事求是,真相,实况报道,事实真相
Definitions
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- : an insignificant or trivial fact.
- : something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact, devised especially to gain publicity and accepted because of constant repetition.
Examples
The answers to factoid questions are easy to find in knowledge bases compared with nuanced complex open-domain questions such as the one in the passage indexing example provided by Google.
Each of these factoids gets joined up with billions of others in a sprawling, interconnected network of facts.
The Democratic PACs had outraised them, which is an interesting little factoid in and of itself.
What is wrong and embarrassing is the President of the United States reciting a massively discredited factoid.
Though it does note that she has a tattoo—and that factoid is helpfully paired with the phrase “tough as nails.”
And by consumer and supplier agreement, no fact, factoid, or truthiness is too small to register.
McCarthy contributes the factoid, “We have four million more government jobs in America than manufacturing jobs.”