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actuality

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


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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 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, the audience needs space to breathe.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025

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

When I wobbled back to Camp Four around 7:30 Saturday morning, May 11, the actuality of what had happened—of what was still happening—began to sink in with paralyzing force.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer




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