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IN FACT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In reality or actuality
Example:
as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father
Synonyms:
as a matter of fact; in fact; in point of fact
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Context examples:
He was waiting for us, in fact, at the public-house; and asked me how I found myself, like an old acquaintance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In fact, his conduct approached that of a bully, and he was given to swaggering up and down before Spitz’s very nose.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
In fact, many RhoGEFs were identified based on their transforming activity, which was abrogated upon disruption of their DH domain.
(DH Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
In fact, diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure in the United States.
(Diabetic Kidney Problems, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
A range of values for a parameter that may contain the parameter and the degree of confidence that it is in fact there.
(Confidence Interval, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers concluded it was in fact a snake and not a mere legless lizard by studying the vertebrae, which were found with their ribs intact, in each part of the snake's body.
(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)
The only missing link now is to prove that merrillite had, in fact, really been Martian whitlockite before.
(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In fact, the ice sheet has a long history of expanding and shrinking — a finding that indicates the ice sheet may contribute substantially to global sea-level rise as Earth's climate warms.
(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)
Existing in fact and ready for service.
(Effective, NCI Thesaurus)
In fact, the rate of degradation is dependent on factors that appear to act independent of ligand binding.
(ErbB3 Receptor Recycling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
