Collocations withreality
These are words often used in combination withreality.
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absolute reality
They do not capture an absolute reality but a partial one.
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alternate reality
This suggests that the book takes place in an alternate reality.
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alternative reality
It became a social enclave in which members were given opportunities to create an alternative reality.
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brutal reality
The brutal reality is that the key parts of the mutual movement have been in serious decline for a long time.
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concrete reality
Actually, stories of wealthy individuals attaining political office are the concrete reality behind the feast cliche!
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day-to-day reality
It is the patient and their carers, whether it be family or not, who are dealing with the day-to-day reality of living with the dying process.
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distortion of reality
In these circumstances, to count mortgage payments as expenditures on housing could amount to a significant distortion of reality.
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divine reality
For him, in symbolism as in metaphysical poetry, "the personal or human reality and the imaginative or divine reality must be perfectly interfused" (105).
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economic reality
Aside from providing extensive access for children, group instrumental teaching is an economic reality of music service provision.
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empirical reality
But it would be wrong to suggest that these economists, or economists in general, begin with some empirical reality from which they abstract their models.
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external reality
But science is all about modeling objective external reality, a truth that science presupposes to exist.
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grim reality
The phenomenon of the weavers running away from their looms and villages was, therefore, increasingly becoming a grim reality.
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harsh reality
This may be the harsh reality of endogeneity when applied to labour markets.
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historical reality
A new and heterogeneous image can then appear that approximates historical reality more than the still-dominant narrowly scoped impressions of events.
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objective reality
The objective reality in which an individual lives and acts is not "purely natural" but includes products of former human social activity.
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observable reality
To carry out this goal, a quantitative construct of lenition is required-a hypothetical latent variable, but one that is well-grounded in observable reality.
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perception of reality
Thus, soundscape listening can be interpreted as a strategy to organise the perception of reality in a generally enhanced environment.
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physical reality
It seems possible in this case that all three types of solution may correspond to physical reality under some atmospheric and initial conditions.
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political reality
His study demonstrated that civil society activism had been largely ignored in the academic world, but was an important political reality.
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practical reality
Many archaeologists regarded interest in theory with a certain suspicion, fearing that it might be a flight from the complex practical reality of archaeology.
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reality series
But this floridly funny, vicariously vicious reality series exerts a vulgar charm.
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sad reality
The sad reality appeared to be that at the end of the twentieth century there was no alternative to the projection of personality.
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social reality
Ageing with television : images of television drama and conceptions of social reality.
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stark reality
Besides, the stark reality is that if the meal is not prepared, the patient will not be sustained and may even die.
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transcendent reality
The profound differences among the religious traditions are due to the different ways in which the transcendent reality is experienced and conceived in human life.
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ultimate reality
But, he urged, ultimate reality deserves a much bigger canvas.
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underlying reality
Liberalism could be represented as a convenient cover for an underlying reality of oppression and domination.
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understanding of reality
Nevertheless, policy decisions should be based on an understanding of reality.
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