alternative fact
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alternative fact
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This term gained prominence after it was used by Kellyanne Conway in January 2017 and widely repeated in the US media.
noun alternative facts · alt-fact
- Something presented as a fact for reasons of political expediency; a fiction, a falsehood, a lie. They are creating their own facts, but one need not be in Government to create alternative facts.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see alternative, fact. That Newton was an empirical scientist is a fact. An alternative fact is that he was an alchemist.
