in reality
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You're not incurring a direct cost on your books for this old software, but in reality you are, only it's an implicit cost until something like this happens.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Heaton and Hartnett play father and son in “Below,” but in reality they’re just shy of 16 years apart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Everything is always 100% worse in my mind when you have a hangover than in reality," says Tobin.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The first will help to stay focused on facts and grounded in reality when emotions in the room run high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
I don’t understand why they are looking at me as if I am a strange animal, when in reality, we look very much the same.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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