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in reality





ADVERB
for real
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"That just shows the big change in reality TV."

From BBC

Our fragrances have always been genderless, but in reality, the significant percentage of our consumer base was female.

From The Wall Street Journal

The film is partially based in reality; the Hayes character is inspired by Martin Donnelly, whose promising career was cut short in 1990 by a gruesome crash.

From Los Angeles Times

“We need to govern in reality,” Ms. Hochul said after approving the pipeline, while advocating “an all-of-the-above approach” to “ensure grid reliability and affordability.”

From The Wall Street Journal

To be clear, this is an invented statistic with no basis in reality, which ignores the observable fact that humans find each other attractive for all sorts of different reasons.

From Salon