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 Housemaid” is about as depraved and delicious as a mainstream film can get, packed with narrative twists and guffaw-worthy choices from everyone involved.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 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
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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