real thing
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Visitors can see the real thing and more in an exhibition that will feature all of the famed Northern Renaissance artist’s surviving portraits—nine painted panels and one breathtaking preparatory drawing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Perimenopausal brain fog was a real thing, though like nearly every other perimenopausal symptom it was tricky to distinguish from about a hundred other medical conditions,” Sloane tells us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
So are the "luteal uglies" a real thing?
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
That mordant humor, however enjoyable, tiptoes around the unanswerable question of how, or even whether, we can tell the difference between cosplay and the real thing.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
What if spatial sickness is a real thing?
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
