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IN REALITY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly
Example:
people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous
Synonyms:
actually; in reality
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Context examples:
To me, he was in reality become no longer flesh, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument—nothing more.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In reality, it only takes a picosecond, but on film, the process has been slowed down by a trillion times.
(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Our task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importance.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)
The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And the Lion answered, "I am a Cowardly Lion, afraid of everything. I came to you to beg that you give me courage, so that in reality I may become the King of Beasts, as men call me."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The team’s reanalysis, based on the new Hubble observations, suggests that much of the warmer surface detected previously in infrared light may, in reality, simply have been the dark surface of the companion MK 2.
(Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake, NASA)
In reality, that’s not a huge jump; if 1,000 people ate an extra half-egg per day, the researchers estimate that 11 more people than normal would develop heart disease, and 19 more people than normal would die in the next 30 years.
(Eggs No Longer Part of a Healthy Diet?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
She found that she had been misled by the careful, the considerate attention of her daughter, to think the attachment, which once she had so well understood, much slighter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In other studies, apart from the possible contamination of samples with archaea from adjacent lands, these mineral particles may have been interpreted as fossilized cells, when in reality they form spontaneously in the brines even though there is no life.
(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
