actuality
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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
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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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