actuality

“I’m really happy that it looks like, ‘Oh, they must have spent so much time,’ when in actuality we just had such a great chemistry immediately.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

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, 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

I guessed that he had the jelly beans to make it look like he was offering kids a treat, but in actuality he never did and went on his own jelly-bean-eating binges.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

His contribution, titled “The Nobel Returns Home,” celebrates how “the Arts — and literature in particular — are well and thriving” in Africa, “a sturdy flag waved above depressing actualities by a young, confident generation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021

With those in our pockets, we can seize the possibilities and begin to make hopes into actualities.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2017

She despises nearly all public art, for its obliviousness of the actualities of public life.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

We were instant friends, who communicated not on the actualities of our lives, but through story.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2014

But their possibilities for good were overbalanced by their actualities of evil.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill