in reality
Example Sentences
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Their core message: These systems are supposed to make senior engineers so productive that companies can lay off junior engineers, but in reality, many companies are trading near-term productivity for long-term woes.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
But in reality, councils struggling to accommodate children are placing more of them than ever in what are now illegal homes - at huge taxpayer expense.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Too often, Social Security advice defaults to black-and-white answers, when in reality it’s almost always a gray, highly individual situation.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
“They think they’ve found a bad deal, when in reality all prices are high,” says economist Matthew S. Lewis of Clemson University, who studies consumer search behavior.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
