in fact
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It is not unusual to get storms one after another - in fact they quite often arrive in clusters.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
That it is, in fact, a statement an ancillary character makes in Paweł Pawlikowski’s new film, “Fatherland,” speaks to the stench thickening the movie’s moral atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
France, in fact, has a slightly lower debt-to-GDP ratio than the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
They then used 24 estimates of the world population stretching across the past 2,000 years to show that human numbers have in fact continually outpaced expectations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
“I absolutely agree, of course. I put that one out there today myself, in fact, and look how it worked. Brought you two in real quick.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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