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actuality

[ak-choo-al-i-tee] / ˌæk tʃuˈæl ɪ ti /


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In actuality, data exists on computer servers, its components “as tangible as gold bullion.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

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, the song draws from “a three- or four-day period of my life that I blew up into this big thing,” Rapp said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2025

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

From Slate Jul. 30, 2025

In actuality, it wasn’t more than one night, as when Jack was about to yell to the wolf that they needed a break, he saw the sunrise poking through the trees up ahead.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

Meanwhile, its actualities are largely cloaked from scrutiny until they shimmer into a very pricey item loved by both parties.

From Salon Apr. 10, 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

"Each nature is a bundle of potentialities of which only some are allowed by the conditions to become actualities."

From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson




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