as in cases
something that actually exists
preferred a single materiality to a slew of hypotheticals
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Noun
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In some cases, the frost is severe enough to end the growing season and is then referred to as a 'killing frost'.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Oct. 2025 -
In some cases, that can be attributed to egregious abandonment or benign neglect.—
Justin Worland,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Sturgis tells Fortune that he’s frustrated by how the system fails to prepare people for the realities of the economy, and doesn’t advertise the opportunities out there for workers like him.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Throughout the 1970s, as much as Nicholson’s rebels or Beatty’s hopeless romantics, Keaton’s optimistic dreamers repeatedly collided with the realities of the times, measuring the distance between what the counterculture thought was possible and what the world would actually allow.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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These courts ruled that prior lawsuits addressed the same facts and that a law called Section 230 gave the social media companies legal immunity for content-moderation decisions.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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Laine requested community members let law enforcement conduct their investigation and let the facts come to light.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Materialities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/materialities. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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