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actuality

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


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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

My wobbly legs were telling me we had traveled far, but in actuality, the landmarks showed that we weren’t even halfway there.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall




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