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actual

adjective as in existing at the present time

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"The more a meme gets readapted and reused, the more chances it has to stick in our actual vocabulary," the 24-year-old explains.

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In a school system with nearly 400,000 students, the difference this year between the anticipated decline and the actual decline is more than 7,000 students.

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And that doesn’t even include the administration’s actual destruction of edible food.

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"What it means to a small little family company like ours is that our actual payable rates is going to be going up by some 27%," he said.

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“Clearly, despite all of the talk about layoff announcements, actual layoffs are not accelerating at the moment. Far from it,” writes Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Santander.

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

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