reality

"The reality is that these years in your kids' lives are so fleeting, and I'm super aware of the time," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

We often compare Gen Z’s present to older generations’ memories instead of their reality.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

“People assume the advisers are working for them all the time,” Garrett says, but the reality is that it’s more like four hours a year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Even within the tenuous reality of the movie, Frankie and Molly aren’t focused on saving their own necks, especially after their clairvoyant powers kick in and the friends realize they can communicate with closed mouths.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

He said that to turn our dreams into reality we’d need two things—freedom and money—and he asked if any of us had ever worked for real money before.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

Does “Don’t Say Good Luck” skirt around the grim realities of cancer as cavalierly as it paints a Pinterest mood-board vision of high school?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

“What we love about Brasilia is how it holds both realities at once,” Roy said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

It is not uncommon for the early euphoria around new administrations to cool when confronted with the realities of governing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

For all of sodium-ion batteries’ strengths, there is one arena where lithium-ion batteries are still tops, owing to unavoidable physical realities: the amount of energy they can store per gram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The vet had been right: For me this was not a city of realities, but of dreams; perhaps because I had always thought of my life as being confined to the South.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison