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real

[ree-uhl, reel] / ˈri əl, ril /


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"There's a real strength of feeling from people who've lived near to these sites or worked in them, a real clamouring."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Yet the analysts believe that “new AI entrants” in areas outside of tech — across healthcare, real estate, cars and consumer services — are also worth including in a portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Without concrete steps to tolerate more intellectual diversity, insist on free inquiry and provide real value for money, universities will remain in minimum high regard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

This is a very real part of life for students at historically black colleges and universities, but that doesn’t make it any less frightening.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

“You know that’s not a real thing, right?”

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

The second, published as a supplement, was Curieuses und reales Natur- Kunst- Berg- Gewerb- und Handlungs-Lexicon, Leipzig, 1712, 8vo, 788 pages, frequently reprinted to 1792.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

Pines and fir interspersed the scrub to the very reales or utmost heights of Bermeja—4,800 feet by aneroid: and Palmitera, though the snow lies longer there, is of a trifle less altitude.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck

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

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

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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