actual
Example Sentences
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Over the long term, one answer is to let TSA regulate security checkpoints, while having more airports spin off the actual operation to private entities.
Testing of commercial melatonin supplements has revealed major differences between labeled doses and the actual amount of melatonin contained in some products.
From Science Daily
Now comes the harder part: turning that record 16 nominations into actual wins at the 98th Academy Awards this Sunday.
“But I would be shocked to see actual production growth. It’s more just ‘what’s your decline rate?’”
From Los Angeles Times
But the actual work happens behind-the-scenes, according to the governors.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.