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real

[ree-uhl, reel] / ˈri əl, ril /


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This year, the combined company spent about $8 billion on corporate overhead, real estate and facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

That includes consolidating real estate space, streamlining marketing, unifying technology and reducing the number of third-party vendors it uses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

The real work, to be sure, begins now.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

But some analysts see a very real possibility that Huang will have to exit as a result of the investigation and heightened attention.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

Was he off to say hi to whoever we wanted to date for real?

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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 principal courts of justice were the Audiencias reales, or Royal Audiences.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

The former promised good offices to their new friends, two reales apiece to the Indians, and the revolution was crushed.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. 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

The Mangaratiba city hall said in a statement Monday night it had issued four fines totalling about 16 million Brazilian reals after Neymar was accused of illegally building an artificial lake at his mansion.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 4, 2023

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

“He shot ‘Socrates’ with 30,000 reals, which is around $12,000,” said Meirelles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 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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