"nugget of truth" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989, Walter A. Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 59:",
          "text": "Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage.",
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          "ref": "2003, Henry Cloud, Making Small Groups Work: What Every Small Group Leader Needs to Know, page 286:",
          "text": "This book identifies twelve teachings that sound plausible because they each contain a nugget of truth.",
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          "ref": "2008 January 9, “Clinton's Hispanic edge over Obama”, in Chicago Tribune:",
          "text": "Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local.",
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        "A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement."
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        "(idiomatic) A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement."
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          "roman": "zernó ístiny",
          "sense": "small amount of truth",
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          "word": "зерно́ и́стины"
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        "A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement."
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        "(idiomatic) A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement."
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