actual cost
Americannoun
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“But we also want to draw from the suburbs and the rural areas and do the stuff that gets actual country folk into the city.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Like an actual queen of an actual country.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2022
Yes, a TV show created an anthem—acting like it's an actual country or something—and its actors stood around singing said anthem, as if it was a real thing.
From Golf Digest • Feb. 14, 2018
Famously, Yorkshire won so many medals in the 2012 Olympics it would have finished 12th in the medals table were it an actual country.
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2016
And now here I was, standing just outside the actual country.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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