reality
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Insiders from the industry claim the reality is that every full house is now expected to have planning consent - and that the majority of applications are rejected.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
But that reality is too often used to establish a tenderness around criticism of the Black art that does manage to come down the pipeline.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
In reality, the semi was inoperable, and did not have a hydrogen fuel cell or electric motors — the two most critical components of the truck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
In reality, this kind of crossing is especially deadly, data show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
She sank further into denial, losing her grip on reality.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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“When you’ve already surrounded yourself with queer circles that seem so safe, it’s often easy to forget many of the realities you experienced before,” Guitarrica says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The inner and outer realities can get confusing, not that it particularly matters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
He announced MI5 had launched an AI Threat Assessment Centre, which he said would assess sources and "separate the bluster from the realities".
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ritualized practices help patients, families and clinicians acknowledge realities that are emotionally and morally significant but difficult to express.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
But other physicists propose that two alternative histories, two equally valid realities, could exist side by side—the one you know and the one in which you were never born.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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