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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

“I’m really happy that it looks like, ‘Oh, they must have spent so much time,’ when in actuality we just had such a great chemistry immediately.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 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, 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

So I know I should’ve been a brilliant detective or whatever, but in actuality I was one of the least observant people I’d ever met.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

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

Bruner-Yang might not be famous for forecasts, but he’s an ace with actualities.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2015

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

She luxuriated shamelessly in the smallest actualities of his presence; why, even mirth stood but a remove away.

From The Story of Louie by Oliver [pseud.] Onions




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