real world
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A carefully planned marketing strategy’s true test is what happens when it hits the real world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
But in the real world, overconfidence about future stock-market returns puts us at grave risk of outliving our money.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
"I just love reading these kinds of fantasy books because the real world is a little bit terrible and I love to escape into a fantasyland of fairies and anything other worldly," Amy says.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
They begin seeing tiny human figures that appear to move through the real world, walking around objects, climbing over surfaces, and interacting with their surroundings.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Double-entry bookkeeping thus represents an attempt to make the real world, the world of bolts of silk, bales of wool and bags of sugar, mathematically legible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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