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actuality

[ak-choo-al-i-tee] / ˌæk tʃuˈæl ɪ ti /


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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, they’ll be weakening one of the great checks against the actual threat—emboldening the real danger that is sitting, and amassing further power, within.

From Slate May 15, 2025

With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess-game he was witnessing, move by move.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

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

The appearance of unity is easier than the messy actualities.

From The Guardian Jul. 31, 2019

To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities.

From Washington Post Oct. 6, 2017

She despises nearly all public art, for its obliviousness of the actualities of public life.

From The New Yorker Dec. 15, 2014

But he could not wield the Prospero's wand of imaginative insight which brings the supernatural and the incredible within the range of actualities.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo




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