not actually
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But given “the structural challenge of a good part of their business,” he said, “I’m not actually sure that it’s a great stock right now.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
It would not actually increase the amount of daylight, but shift an hour of it from the morning to the evening by the clock.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
These tools do not actually know who, or what, wrote a piece of text.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
But in today’s economy, those rules may not actually set a household up to succeed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Growing up, I was always tickled by this raffish personal connection to history: part of the Puritans, but not actually puritanical.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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