actuality
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The five years, in actuality, starts from the point at which United get the green light to put spades in the ground.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 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 refuse to invoke the phrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson," since it's one that's been famously misattributed to Holmes, though, in actuality, found nowhere in Doyle's pages.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025
Upon opening my eyes, I discover the ‘brook’ is, in actuality, a horse releasing a powerful stream of urine.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
In actuality it had probably been a manual laborer, a field hand, with aspirations for something better.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing actuality
Novel Study: American Born Chinese, Pages 85–233
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