real
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Businessman Yang Shuai, 42, feared that future generations would "face real hardship" due to hurdles encountered when searching for jobs.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Real stuff, real lives; we take none of it lightly, not even Wiatt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Everyone’s more than ready for it and thirsty for it in a real way,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Gabriel Gudmundsson: Caused Newcastle real problems with his runs down the left.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
I’m pretty sure I knew that before, deep down, but now I know it for real.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Spaniards have rhapsodized over Gypsy Vicente Escudero ever since, at the age of 9, he danced in the streets with his Gypsy relatives, went through the crowds passing his worn cap for reales.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the price of five reales, people could look into the telescope and see the gypsy woman an arm’s length away.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Without knowing what to say, he paid ten reales more so that his sons could have that prodigious experience.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I will allow them thirty thousand reales, and we will content ourselves with fifty thousand.
From Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés
As it passed, a woman walked up and put upon it two reales, probably her all.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens
In Caracas, prices are often denominated in dollars or euros, while on the borders, Colombian pesos and Brazilian reals are often used.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
I’m just so happy that it’s all been captured for reals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
He initially charged people 650 reals, or about $127, But organizers gathered enough donations, Amaral said, that they were able to cover the trip.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2023
Of the nearly 50 billion reals the administration of President Jair Boslonaro is expecting, 20% will go to the federal treasury, and the rest to building new infrastructure or improving existing networks.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
His proud facial response clearly read: Fur reals, you got this.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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