actuality
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“In actuality, Stagg came onboard in about November 1943 and got to Southwark House a few months earlier,” Maras says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
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 Housemaid” is about as depraved and delicious as a mainstream film can get, packed with narrative twists and guffaw-worthy choices from everyone involved.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 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
In actuality it had probably been a manual laborer, a field hand, with aspirations for something better.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing actuality
Novel Study: American Born Chinese, Pages 85–233
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