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What does ring true mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ring true? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To seem to be correct, or plausible
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Given all the excuses for this price range that consumers have heard in the past, none of the reasons really ring true.
Certainly those comments ring true for yoga devotee Janine, who is signed up and ready to greet the new year in downward dog.
While initially these findings may seem surprising, a few moments' reflection reveals that they actually ring true.
We learn about her politics, her home life, and we become very familiar with her world-weary wit, but still she fails to ring true as a person.
In the end, they will have to feel it in their bones and smell it in the air, finding the words that ring true.
Even with this fervent interest in infosec, however, a slew of similar IT security problems from the year before ring true for this one as well.

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