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- noun Plural form of
verity .
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Examples
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Rather, yesteryear's bullish "verities" -- you can't go wrong owning stocks, you can retire early, good times can roll forever -- have been replaced by equally fatuous bearish verities.
Bull? Bear? Lemming! 2007
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One of the current such verities is that sacred music in worship is of no wide cultural relevance, either because it’s too clever and boring (polyphony), or too stupid and boring (folk masses); anyway it can be of no interest to anyone except fanatics.
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The verities are his for the asking, the strong things of cultivated fields and of wild places.
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This reassurance is all the more important now that the old "verities" of the Cold War are gone.
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Many believe it can help sell a property faster but celebrity ties are unlikely to significantly alter the verities of the property market, such as location, and square feet.
In Wake of Kardashians, a Price Boost Josh Barbanel 2012
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Rosedale in Love may be written in a period voice and set in 1905, but it's about American verities: the drive for success and the corrupting power of money.
Lev Raphael: Reinventing Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Lev Raphael 2011
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Instead of a movie actress I once liked mildly for a season or two, I now only see an abstraction of the financial verities of modern movie superstardom.
Diaz, Roberts, Aniston: it's all the same when it comes to films like Bad Teacher 2011
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Rosedale in Love may be written in a period voice and set in 1905, but it's about American verities: the drive for success and the corrupting power of money.
Lev Raphael: Reinventing Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Lev Raphael 2011
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It's one of the most frustrating verities of African American life.
Sunday Reading 2009
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It is England's responsibility to rule, for as long as their talent allows, with a bit of swagger but respecting those verities, too.
If England become world No1 they must develop the attitude to dominate | Kevin Mitchell 2011
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