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real world

noun as in things as they are

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Quorra, like Ares, started her existence in the Grid and eventually made her way out into the real world.

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Yet, their conversation always pirouettes back to the gap between the real world and the movies.

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“Anyone expecting a simple prescription on China is not living in the real world,” then Foreign Secretary David Lammy said this summer after presenting the government’s strategy.

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“There’s a disconnect between the real world in terms of what things cost nationwide and average inflation,” Milan noted.

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"But the real world immediate impact is that people don't know how to communicate with each other."

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

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