actualité
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of actualité
C20: French: literally, truth
Example Sentences
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“It’s really, really fun to be with the orchestra. But the `l’actualité,′ as they say in French: This something that the orchestra will take their time. They will try out a lot of people.”
From Seattle Times
As it happens, Dr Schmidt was being economical with the actualité, as the MP Alan Clark used to say.
From The Guardian
Far more lucid and less debauched than I, she considered I had done full justice to the actualité, which includes a portrait of my younger self that is not so much warts-and-all, as all warts.
From The Guardian
But the privately owned Actualité news site says a man was killed by a police pick-up truck as the procession drove through Kinshasa's Limete neighbourhood - a stronghold of the veteran leader.
From BBC
“This was the same Paris arrondissement, several streets apart,” said Noémie Halioua, a French journalist with Actualité Juive and the author of a new book on the Halimi case.
From Washington Post
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