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How to use the word actual in a Sentence?

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*Every* picture is actual size.

John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com

added by robertkingson
1 month ago

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process

Thomas Sowell

added by Normando
4 months ago

Of those over 650, we’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value, and now we have to go through those and go ‘How much of those do I have actual data for?’.

Sean Kirkpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In general, the response is actual surprise, it’s ‘Wow! I had no idea!’.

Toyota Dan Hommes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When a very high profile tech person is murdered, it is just going to get more publicity than if it was an impoverished person in a neighborhood of color, it’s just low-hanging fruit. Nobody wants to look at actual statistics. Most of the states and counties with the highest level of crime statistics are in red states versus blue states.

George Tita

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This sets up a dangerous situation where tighter credit conditions could prompt actual layoffs in the months ahead as corporations struggle to get costs under control.

Chris Rupkey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you’ve been egregiously defamed by a media outlet, in 2023 you have almost no opportunity for actual recourse.

Alex Andrade

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You know, one of the things I’d say is that red-on-red violence, so to speak, is something that the mass media enjoys, the road to socialism runs through a divided Republican Party. One thing we should do is keep our focus on the actual problem: That is President Biden.

Tim Scott

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The tightening of lending standards and actual lending that’s going to ensue on the backside of this will cool the economy in a significant way, and that might.

Joe Brusuelas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The comets and asteroids in the solar system have arguably taught us more about planet formation than what we’ve learned from the actual planets in the solar system, i think that the interstellar comets could arguably tell us more about extrasolar planets than the extrasolar planets we are trying to get measurements of today.

Darryl Seligman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the price point is getting into a more reasonable point for a lot of people and for an actual commercial viability standpoint. I think in the next five years or so, you’re going to start to see this technology.

Jonathan Blutinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Of course it is true that no actual revenue will come in until 2023.

Reuven Avi-Yonah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The study is another way for people to recognize that climate change affects everyone, it’s not just about the temperature rising on average around the world, it’s the actual weather events that have severe impacts on people that may be increasing in intensity and frequency.

Matthew Rodell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Kim Jong Un examined the actual war response posture of the 8th fire assault company under the unit charged with striking the enemy’s operation airport in the direction of the western front.

Rodong Sinmun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we’ve all been in the position where we second-guess ourselves about whether or not we deserve something. Let me tell you as a musical theatre geek who really can’s sing I’ve gotten part after part in high school and community shows while my female friends with actual great singing voices get practically nothing. The gender balance and community theater is way off so i got part after part while my friends maybe got one big role every three years if they’re lucky. Iv’e had at least a named role in every show I’ve ever been in. Some girls I’ve met have never had a named role and i hear how good thier voices are and I just want to say sorry. I want to give them my part somehow because I know they’d sing it better.

Schaffrillas Productions

added by Jerribeck034
1 year ago

I feel like we really do have to be concerned about jumping into the political fray, unless we are prompted to do so by a lawsuit that is brought by someone who has an actual interest.

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They’re doing all of them simultaneously in three or four different rooms, and it’s being staffed by one surgeon, the surgeon isn’t doing the actual case. It’s assistants.

Mark Mofid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The longer he stays attached, the greater chance there is of the tissues of the male and the female fusing, the actual cells meld, it’s like being soldered.

Ted Pietsch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s obviously something that’s been going from probably near the beginning of the store. it could be they want to support the actual shop. They know us, they’ve met us, they like us. They like some of the coffees – we’ve got a few house blends that you can’t find anywhere else.

Marisa Crocetta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's an element of at kind of religious fervor against fossil fuels regardless of what the actual impact is, so, therefore, it's viewed as — if it's electric, it's better, and not really looking at it any more deeply than that.

Brent Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.

Thomas I. Emerson

added by Normando
1 year ago

If there's a slowdown in the actual tactical fighting, if that happens, then that may become a window possibly, it may not, for a political solution, or at least the beginnings of talks to initiate a political solution.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

President Biden and President Zelenskyy himself has said that at the end of the day it will be a political solution, if there's a slowdown in the actual tactical fighting, if that happens, then that may become a window possibly, it may not, for a political solution, or at least the beginnings of talks to initiate a political solution.

Mark Milley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There is no data that actually shows that saying 'defund the police' cost actual elections, we have Republicans saying defund the FBI. You know, where are we — where is our narrative? Let me tell you this. Democrats — there were not Democrats scaling walls on January the 6th when I was at the Capitol… Democrats didn't kill police officers.

Cori Bush

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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