How to Use in reality in a Sentence
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In the second half, Toronto will find out if those hopes are based in reality.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 July 2026
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And in reality, Paul Revere was not alone that night by any means.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 July 2026
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What looks like summer fun is, in reality, an extreme and sometimes painful test of the human body.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
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But there are more forces at play right now, and the prices of oil and gold don’t, in reality, show a very strong correlation.
—Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 29 June 2026
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But in reality, an ash pile can hold enough heat to start a fire many hours later—or even days—under the right conditions.
—Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 4 July 2026
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But in reality, the City of Yes could now be more like the City of Maybe.
—Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
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But in reality, the CRM quietly trained the team to distrust it.
—Michael Goshka, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
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But in reality, there’s no magic number that works for everyone, Redline said.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
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But in reality, closed or blocked vents disrupt the airflow balance and can cause pressure to build up in the duct system, making the blower work harder.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 29 June 2026
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But in reality, effective PR builds a brand’s reputation brick by brick—and that’s often a slow but steady process.
—Jenna Guarneri, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
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Yet, in reality, death is ever present—an idea that has become more acute for Gaia as her father, who is seventy-seven, has struggled with health problems.
—Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
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And Sonny eventually integrates with a few of her fellow resort-goers, and learns there’s more to them in reality than her imaginings.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
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What happened at the Grand Rounds appeared to be an attempt to manufacture a scientific debate where, in reality, there isn’t one.
—Ben Lopman, STAT, 2 July 2026
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So in reality, Slawson’s qualifying offer gives the Pacers more time to evaluate him and their two-way contract outlook.
—Tony East, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
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And while that calculation in theory shouldn’t have an impact on the decision by the Supreme Court to take the case, in reality, the prospect of court reform will hang over all of it.
—Rick Ellis, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
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In the first six months of 2026, Russia’s military has struggled to advance and in reality has lost ground in certain sections of the frontlines.
—Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
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Their defence has been just as imperious in reality, conceding only once across seven matches, against Belgium in the quarter-finals.
—Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 20 July 2026
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Purportedly, the president was going to make a major statement about election integrity, but in reality, the speech was dense and hoarsely delivered.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
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What is often framed as data privacy regulation is, in reality, a structural shift in how the digital economy operates.
—Sanjay Ghare, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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However, in reality, the number of collisions is expected to be on the order of several billion per second and will produce so much data that scientists won’t even be able to store it.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
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Investors naturally assume those moves represent the broader market, when in reality they are concentrated in a relatively small group of names.
—Garth Friesen, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
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Here are three stars that appear neatly connected overhead, but in reality, one is separated by an incomprehensible distance.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 24 July 2026
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Still, the category is down almost 28 percent, with a decline in reality TV, which isn’t eligible for subsidies, accounting for much of the drop.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2026
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Engineering leaders worry that consolidating around one platform limits their choices, but in reality, the opposite often happens.
—Rajesh Subramaniam, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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While the health plan designed the system to be fair, patients and their lawyers have alleged that in reality Kaiser’s greater knowledge of arbitrators’ past rulings and its ability to veto arbitrators gives it an advantage to pick favorable judges.
—Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
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Today the United States is in 10th position but, because Henley counts multiple countries with the same score as a single spot in its standings, in reality that means 36 countries are ranked ahead of it.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
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New York, however, is nothing if not resilient, and as disruptive as Swift and Kelce’s wedding could have been, in reality the neighborhood carried on with modest enthusiasm tempered with indifference.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 July 2026
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But, in reality, outsourcing infrastructure is not outsourcing responsibility.
—Vicente Pava, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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Unlike what happened in reality, Y2K turns the world into a postapocalyptic nuclear hellscape, one which gets temporarily better — and then infinitely worse — after Peter becomes the mayor of New Quahog.
—Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 25 July 2026
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Article 4 of the PRC constitution guarantees equality for all its 56 ethnic groups, though in reality the national vision hews to a Han Chinese orthodoxy, which avers a direct lineage from the early Yellow River basin tribes.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
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