practical reality

collocation in English

meaningsofpracticalandreality

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practical
adjective
uk
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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reality
noun
uk
/riˈæl.ə.ti/us
/riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the state of things as they are, rather than as they are imagined ...
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(Definition ofpracticalandrealityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Many archaeologists regarded interest in theory with a certain suspicion, fearing that it might be a flight from the complexpracticalrealityof archaeology.
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It is also appealing to the industrial complex for the reason of coinciding with thepracticalrealityof the so-called engineer pyramid.
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The solutions are comprehensible and very close to thepracticalreality.
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However, the author conclused that there remains a huge gap between the policy arena and thepracticalrealityof classrooms and schools.
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As a matter ofpracticalreality, the role patients will play in decisions about their healthcare is determined by whether their clinicians believe that they have decisionmaking capacity.
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Thispracticalrealitysuggests that music teachers' objectives regarding musicianship need to be much narrower and less ambitious regarding the practice of multiple musics than their appreciation.
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By the end of the century, the dichotomy between theoretical ideals andpracticalrealitycame to a halt as both methodological treatises on education and pleas for funding ceased.
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We all want to see it become apracticalreality.
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I do not think it is too remote frompracticalrealityto say that the further research proceeds, the more costly it becomes.
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They first deny that the transfer is likely to take place and then it becomes apracticalreality.
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They represent the first step in the process of turning the single market in banking into apracticalreality.
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The question is not so much whether one acknowledges these differences but how one applies the principle of accommodating them in real,practicalreality.
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The underlying political and moral values of the national health service have increasingly been underpinned by scientific discovery andpracticalreality.
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If we are to make the legal right into apracticalreality, it is necessary to find easier ways for people to vote.
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What is hard, apparently, is to make generosity of vision apracticalreality.
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I do not think that that can be justified or held to be true when we look at thepracticalreality.
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It flies in the face of common sense andpracticalreality.
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It would be wonderful if the great dream of hydrogen cars could become apracticalreality.
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It is appropriate that having launched the single market, it falls to us to see it intopracticalreality.
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