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actually

/'ækʧuəli/

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adverb
in actual fact
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"to be nominally but not actually independent" "no one actually saw the shark" "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"

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really
adverb
used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly
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"you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out" "she actually spoke Latin"

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in reality

Examples of actually

"to be nominally but not actually independent"
"no one actually saw the shark"
"large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
"you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out"
"she actually spoke Latin"