actualité
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
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
Not least because as she attacked China and the World Health Organization, defended Michael Flynn and dismissed questions about allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump, she flirted, as British hacks of a certain vintage might put it, with being a tad economical with the actualité.
From The Guardian
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
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