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
In actuality, the PSG players are going through the instructions in their head as they decide where to move.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 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
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
It gave the older ones the sense that they were in charge, when in actuality it was Mommy who ruled the world.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
Vocabulary lists containing actuality
Novel Study: American Born Chinese, Pages 85–233
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