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actually adverb (SAYING NO)

"Alexander looks like he'd be good at sports." "Actually, he's not."

"Do you mind if I smoke?" "Well, actually, I'd rather you didn't."

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• I wouldn't mind something to eat, actually.
• I'd like a cup of coffee, please - actually, on second thoughts, I'll have a beer.
• "Did your American friends enjoy their stay?" "Yes. Actually, they're Canadian."
• "Mark's coming today to look at the books." "Actually, it's tomorrow."
• "You must be exhausted after that long journey." "Actually, I feel fine."

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(Definition of actually from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of actually

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Very few of these studies actually address the distinction between planning and control.

Actually nothing out of the ordinary for pediatric newborn intensive care was employed in this case.

It actually turns out that urban real wage is reduced by less than 1 per cent.

One possibility is that motor representations may actually play a role in perceptual processing.

This apparent discrepancy actually makes sense under the view that both experiments capture opposite sides of children's understanding of indirect requests.

Obviously, by competing in parliamentary elections, parties compete for office, but this does not mean that their goal is actually to attain office.

Actually, they appear to the electorate as responsible parties contributing to the governance of the country.

Daily productivity is actually low due to low radiation levels and a cool growing season.

To determine whether children actually produced ' happen ' more often in negative than positive contexts, the order of occurrence of surrounding utterances within episodes was examined.

Technical regulation and enforcement may have actually declined in effectiveness until recent reforms were implemented.

How might a lowland farm actually respond to the technical change?

The other way is to actually perform the symbolic evaluation.

Regardless of how they actually speak, then, these students are perceived as speaking "worse" than other students.

This account might receive further support if the verbs actually attested with habitual do tended to have action nouns based on them.

If a befriender feels that they are actually friends with the client, they may undertake caring tasks which are beyond the scheme's guidelines.

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