actuality
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In actuality, data exists on computer servers, its components “as tangible as gold bullion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
“I’m really happy that it looks like, ‘Oh, they must have spent so much time,’ when in actuality we just had such a great chemistry immediately.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The five years, in actuality, starts from the point at which United get the green light to put spades in the ground.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
In actuality, the audience needs space to breathe.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
But in actuality, the wrestler on the bubble won almost eight out often matches against his 8-6 opponent.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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His contribution, titled “The Nobel Returns Home,” celebrates how “the Arts — and literature in particular — are well and thriving” in Africa, “a sturdy flag waved above depressing actualities by a young, confident generation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2017
With those in our pockets, we can seize the possibilities and begin to make hopes into actualities.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2017
She despises nearly all public art, for its obliviousness of the actualities of public life.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014
Idealism alone is a ghostly conjecture, devoid of the confirmation of actualities.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles
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