How to Use in reality in a Sentence

in reality

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  • And in reality, Paul Revere was not alone that night by any means.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But, in reality, outsourcing infrastructure is not outsourcing responsibility.
    — Vicente Pava, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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