actuality

The arrangement of dreams and actuality is frustratingly haphazard, more like a pretext to widen the novel’s scope.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

In actuality, the PSG players are going through the instructions in their head as they decide where to move.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

In actuality, the audience needs space to breathe.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025

In actuality, LWD didn’t have much to do with Mamdani’s success.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2025

I guessed that he had the jelly beans to make it look like he was offering kids a treat, but in actuality he never did and went on his own jelly-bean-eating binges.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

His contribution, titled “The Nobel Returns Home,” celebrates how “the Arts — and literature in particular — are well and thriving” in Africa, “a sturdy flag waved above depressing actualities by a young, confident generation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021

The appearance of unity is easier than the messy actualities.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2019

To be truly useful, an analogy must be precise not only in its actualities but in its potentialities.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2017

She despises nearly all public art, for its obliviousness of the actualities of public life.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

His mind fastened on the hard actualities of observation, without passing to what they implied or suggested.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various