The actuality was quite different from the theory.
the actuality of the Abominable Snowman is not taken seriously by scientists
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In actuality, many successful businesses start small with entrepreneurs selling from home or offering services part-time.—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025 Gass said that in actuality, the current weather pattern, which began dropping rain into the region on Thursday, is in keeping with how many early spring patterns behave.—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025 In actuality, washing rice removes excess starch, dust, and debris to ultimately help the grains to be more separated and fluffy, rather than sticky.—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025 In actuality, everything — unbeknownst to him — was ridiculously staged in a pitch-perfect reality TV parody, as comedy improv actors like David Hornsby and pre-Saturday Night Live Kristen Wiig would put Gould smack dab in the middle of absurd situation after absurd situation.—Ew Staff, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for actuality
Word History
Etymology
Middle English actualite "capacity for action, effective power," borrowed from Medieval Latin āctuālitāt-, āctuālitās, from Late Latin āctuālisactual + Latin -itāt-, -itās-ity
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