actuality

Example Sentences

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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, 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

"To be honest, at that time it was all quite abstract, and I think this year has been about turning it into an actuality."

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2024

In actuality, it was the Big Tech and venture capital ambassadors who were the happiest of all.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2024

I guessed that he had the jelly beans to make it look like he was offering kids a treat, but in actuality he never did and went on his own jelly-bean-eating binges.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan