real
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With many employees back at their desks, it’s now investors’ turn to start planning their return to beaten-down real estate investment trusts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Topping up the banks’ capital, as Pettis puts it, “doesn’t create real economic wealth.”
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’ve been visiting him long enough to know that it’s not 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
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
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
The danger apprehended from the rainy season was coming to pass, and under the anticipation of a failure of the next crop, corn had risen from two reales to a dollar the load.
From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens
For a hundred reales a handsome suit changed hands, and, taking leave of the stranger, Guzman entered Toledo, where he at once put up at the best inn.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
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
Overall, the government expects the auction, which could continue into Friday, to bring in as much as 50 billion reals.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
The bolívar, the national currency, is worthless, and goods are paid for in gold or reals, the Brazilian currency.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
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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