actuality
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The arrangement of dreams and actuality is frustratingly haphazard, more like a pretext to widen the novel’s scope.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 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
Upon opening my eyes, I discover the ‘brook’ is, in actuality, a horse releasing a powerful stream of urine.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
Ben and Mary Anne felt all eyes were upon them when in actuality no one noticed them at all.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Vocabulary lists containing actuality
Novel Study: American Born Chinese, Pages 85–233
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