actuality
Origin of actuality
1Other words from actuality
- non·ac·tu·al·i·ty, noun, plural non·ac·tu·al·i·ties.
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How to use actuality in a sentence
Too many of my colleagues pay lip service to a “biopsychosocial” model of human development, while in actuality failing to pay attention to any genetic differences between people in their research designs.
How to Build a Society for All to Enjoy - Issue 107: The Edge | Kathryn Paige Harden | September 29, 2021 | NautilusIn actuality, PBS Digital will work with a brand like PBS Kids that receives grant money on producing a digital series.
Case Study: How PBS programming informs its YouTube strategy — and what it looks like when it gets there | Sara Jerde | June 22, 2021 | DigidayIn actuality, they were a brutal dictatorship that subjugated other races.
Every ‘Mass Effect’ squadmate, ranked from a storytelling perspective | Jhaan Elker | June 4, 2021 | Washington PostIn one news report, Carlson referred to Carmichael as “she, or rather he,” said she’s “in actuality a man,” and described her as looking “harried, bedraggled” in a “pink pantsuit” that she’d apparently worn for days.
Politics Report: BIA’s Big Decision | Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts | March 6, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIn actuality, Dustin was a humorous and high-spirited individual whose greatest passion was to make others laugh.
Dustin Diamond, best known as Screech from ‘Saved By the Bell,’ dies at 44 | Emily Yahr | February 1, 2021 | Washington Post
In actuality, there were less than 300 U.S. soldiers in the valley at any given time.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn actuality, an encounter with a goddess of the underworld is another step in the second cycle of the monomyth.
The Walking Dead’s Luke Skywalker: Rick Grimes Is the Perfect Modern-Day Mythical Hero | Regina Lizik | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut in actuality, the novel contains ample material that points to a real and specific time and place.
To BE is to exist, to have actuality; a BI is a guy or girl with bisexuality.
National Scrabble Day: A Poem So You’ll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words | David Bukszpan | April 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is a need to humanize plans that work on paper, in the abstract, but lack touchy-feely elements in actuality.
Find this first, and represent it as soon as you have got the main values, in this way the whole thing will tell as an actuality.
The Painter in Oil | Daniel Burleigh ParkhurstThe first regiments were only boys, still unmarried, living in romance rather than actuality.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianThe time of hard grappling with the overwhelming fulness of actuality is over.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherPerforce, because he was born in our horde he stayed with us; but in actuality he was an atavism and his place was elsewhere.
Before Adam | Jack LondonThe "Blind Lead" episode, as related, is presumably a tale of what might have happened—a possibility rather than an actuality.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine
British Dictionary definitions for actuality
/ (ˌæktʃʊˈælɪtɪ) /
true existence; reality
(sometimes plural) a fact or condition that is real
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