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Actually, in fact, as in He may seem slow to you, but in reality he's very intelligent. [Second half of 1600s]

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But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
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That is a reality that still eats at Grace Castro and Yvonne Lozoya.
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His hero, Bruce Springsteen, is a gazillionaire, but he still manages to come across as a regular guy, so perception is reality.
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This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
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He was a dreamer, an idealist, grounded in the reality he observed around him.
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Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
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The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.
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So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.
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Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.
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The intensity of his sensations seemed inexplicable, unless some reality, some truth, lay behind them.
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