actuality
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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
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, LWD didn’t have much to do with Mamdani’s success.
From Slate • Jul. 30, 2025
Upon opening my eyes, I discover the ‘brook’ is, in actuality, a horse releasing a powerful stream of urine.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025
In Angora, Mustafa Kemal let it be printed in the newspaper that he would be holding a tea at Chankaya while in actuality he’d left for his headquarters in the field.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Novel Study: American Born Chinese, Pages 85–233
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