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actual

adjective as in existing at the present time

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Not much actual work will get done, and what gets done may make no real-world sense, but the office is the box that holds them and colors their lives.

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“The people of the only two trailer parks — the isolated, actual affordable housing communities … you would think that we would be the No. 1 priority.”

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“But the other reaction was: OK, what’s the actual science here?”

When doing so, she says it's important to remember the "liking gap" - the negative disconnect between how we think others perceive us and their actual opinion.

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The Supreme Court has defined commercial speech as communication of the “terms of an actual or potential transaction” that has an “economic motivation”—for example, credit-card solicitations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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