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actual in English:

1. actually


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You were always a perfect 'superhuman' to an infuriating extent, and so that 'habit' was actually one of your cute, or rather charming, attributes.
Shanghainese is actually a kind of pidgin, based on Wu dialects, Lower Yangtze Mandarin, and English loanwords.
Actually I wanted to be a damsel in a tower guarded by seven dragons, and then a prince on a white horse would chop off the dragons' heads and liberate me.
Day by day and month by month, Internet technology is growing. Actually, make that second by second and minute by minute.
His boosterism makes it sound wonderful but I wonder if he understands how hard it's going to be to actually carry out.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is quite a long word, isn't it? "Yes, but do you know what it means?" "Actually, I don't." "It means fear of long words." "How ironic."
Actually, and I need to keep this quiet, but recently here there's a rumour that young women on this beach are having photos taken in secret of them.
Of course "Hayabusa" is not actually closing in on the Sun, it is just positioned as in the figure so that, seen from the Earth, it is on the opposite side of the Sun; this is called 'conjunction'.
We need to distinguish what a sentence could mean from what it actually does mean when used by one particular speaker on one particular occasion.
Do you actually believe that fairies exist? (Czy ty rzeczywiście wierzysz, że wróżki istnieją?) Did she actually break up with him? (Czy ona faktycznie z nim zerwała?)
She sounds English but she's actually Spanish. Did you actually meet the president? "You didn't tell me." "Actually, I did." "Do you mind if I smoke?" "Actually, I'd rather you didn't."

English word "actual"(actually) occurs in sets:

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2. real


Get real!
People that have experienced so-called 'lucid dreams' often describe them as being 'more real than reality'. They also describe reality after waking up from a 'lucid dream' to be like a 'whimsical dream'.
In Japan there are a lot of translations from English to Japanese and from Japanese to English, but there isn't much real demand for Japanese to Spanish or Spanish to Japanese.
An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
The real, biological nervous system is highly complex and includes some features that may seem superfluous based on an understanding of artificial networks.
Pages are usually at least 4 KiB (4×1024 bytes) in size, and systems with large virtual address ranges or large amounts of real memory generally use larger page sizes.
ASCII quotes are a substitute character for the “real” quotes that vary from language to language, and the advent of Unicode have rendered ASCII quotes obsolete.
Artificial neural networks can be used to understand biological neural networks, or to solve problems of artificial intelligence, without necessarily creating models of real biological systems.
On Monday, the Pierson Publishing House will launch an ambitious advertising compaign for Real Life, a highly anticipated new novel from Korea.
Although Al-Sayib would never admit it, the real reason he hates noobs that much is that he got pwned by one while Dima watched and laughed his ass off.
The reason the Northern and Southern Dynasties had failed in their rule was that they allowed literary splendor to surpass real substance.
I'd rather go by train. I have a license, but no real driving experience, so I'm not very sure of myself behind the wheel.
Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry.

English word "actual"(real) occurs in sets:

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3. used to emphasise that something is real or exact