actuality

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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 song draws from “a three- or four-day period of my life that I blew up into this big thing,” Rapp said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

"To be honest, at that time it was all quite abstract, and I think this year has been about turning it into an actuality."

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

After, it felt like her success came overnight but in actuality it was about seven years in the making.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2024

In Angora, Mustafa Kemal let it be printed in the newspaper that he would be holding a tea at Chankaya while in actuality he’d left for his headquarters in the field.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides