actual

Example Sentences

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While Patchett has clearly drawn on actual events and individuals to produce this luminous work, she exhibits the expert novelist’s knack for following a plot where the imagination takes it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

This practice can help you feel more confident, lower your stress during the actual negotiation and make you as prepared as possible with counterarguments.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Then the Supreme Court spanked them for it and said: How dare you keep applying actual law?

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

Whatever the actual price, it wasn’t too high for Shelley Johannesen, a family friend who died on May 11 shortly after summiting Makalu, in Nepal, the world’s fifth-highest peak.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

“There are actual babysitters on our front step right now. We can still go to that concert in Chicago if you want!”

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller