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Answer for the clue "In reality ", 8 letters:
actually

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actually \Ac"tu*al*ly\, adv. Actively. [Obs.] ``Neither actually . . . nor passively.'' --Fuller. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES really/actually exist ▪ Do you think ghosts really exist? COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB do ▪ Which one actually did the job once rested on speculation. ▪ Often, it happens because good ideas bubble up from employees ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "in fact, in reality" (as opposed to in possibility), from actual + -ly (2). Meaning "actively, vigorously" is from mid-15c.; that of "at this time, at present" is from 1660s. As an intensive added to a statement and suggesting "as a matter ...

Usage examples of actually.

It is therefore clear that matter had been absorbed which was either actually poisonous or of too stimulating a nature.

Here he reared a continuous rampart with a ditch in front of it, fair-sized forts, probably a dozen in number, built either close behind it or actually abutting on it, and a connecting road running from end to end.

Right now the only one of us tars actually working was Halle, who was chasing down a pool of vomit sicked up by Pael, the Academician, the only non-Navy personnel on the bridge.

Einstein significantly extended this symmetry by showing that the laws of physics are actually identical for all observers, even if they are undergoing complicated accelerated motion.

Intellectual-Principle which actually is the primals and is always self-present and is in its nature an Act, never by any want forced to seek, never acquiring or traversing the remote--for all such experience belongs to soul--but always self-gathered, the very Being of the collective total, not an extern creating things by the act of knowing them.

Karl Acton, rather than simply disappearing, was actually killed by an erupting smoker.

Clarke and Brander about this, neither could remember Acton actually using the machine.

For if it were actually something, that actualized something would not be Matter, or at least not Matter out and out, but merely Matter in the limited sense in which bronze is the matter of the statue.

Another subtle aspect of addiction is that, although it is the first dose that hooks us, the whole process is usually so subtle and gradual that it can take years for us to realize that we are actually hooked.

Actually, as little as I liked the idea of being beholden to Aden at this particular moment, it struck me as a great idea.

The reply of those who opposed the adjournment was that the condition of public affairs did actually tend to revolution, and that instead of fanning the popular excitement by remaining in session, Congress would be thus most wisely allaying the fears which had entered the minds of so large a number of the people.

On February 5th the line was advancing, and on the 6th it was known that De Wet was actually within the angle, the mouth of which was spanned by the British line.

Likewise, a rebate is offered if the advertiser contracts for 12 issues and actually runs advertisements in 14 issues.

Actually the money was in bills, Imperial credits as well as Aenean libras, most of it given him in a wad by Sergeant Astaff before he left Windhome.

The Pope would die and the circus would actually begin with the tawdry tinkle of the hurdy-gurdy and monkeys on chains, the trumpet fanfare of a Fellini movie and the clowns and all the freaks and aerialists joining hands, dancing, capering across the screen.