noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divorced from reality
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His ideas are completely divorced from reality .
harsh realities
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a young girl suddenly exposed to the harsh realities of life
reality check
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It’s time for a reality check. The Bears aren’t as good a team as you think.
reality TV
virtual reality
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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Chavez, however, recognizes the pressures on him to make the leap from deconstructing the past to building new economic realities .
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In a wide-open auction, broadcasters would face a harsh economic reality .
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But the steps taken so far have been tentative ones, forced by bitter economic realities .
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Were they about to change, now that the new economic realities of health care had changed where decisions would be made?
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Human institutions and ideas are a superstructure built on economic reality .
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At the same time, economic and political realities had to be accommodated.
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But all of those societies had political and social ideologies that were congruent with their economic realities .
external
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The individual suspends his critical judgement and involvement in external reality to becoming passively absorbed in an imaginary world.
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Still, these external realities inform rather than dictate the novel.
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When it dropped her back inside the moment, the external realities of Kärtnerstrasse seemed a pastiche of the Middle Ages.
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In these projections the movement is not of external reality inward but of the self outward.
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These inner phantasies are projected into the external reality which is then re-incorporated as objective reality.
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A stronger sense of self, based on a combination of external reality and internal ideas, begins to emerge.
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There is no neutral, objective, external criterion for reality or rationality.
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Marx none the less believed that an external reality did exist, and that human consciousness could understand it.
grim
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And that we have an obligation to listen to noise because it shows us the grim truth of reality .
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Yet its simplicity dramatizes a grim reality .
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But these steps forward are against the background of some grim realities for children in other areas.
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Perhaps some of them are good at putting on a face, saving the grim reality for private moments.
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Life was teaching him its grim realities - the hard and close way.
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My brief visit certainly brought home to me the grim realities that lie behind the many statistics on Third World debt.
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It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality .
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However, the pain in her chest confirmed that this was no nightmare, but grim reality .
harsh
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Flight from reality , especially harsh , unpleasant reality.
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In a wide-open auction, broadcasters would face a harsh economic reality .
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Little Nemo was a little boy with a sweeping imagination, Tank Girl is a big girl steeped in harsh reality .
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One of the harsh realities about the electronic media is that it chews up its stars as fast as it creates them.
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Faces were stripped of pretence by the pitiless bombardment of harsh reality .
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Dennis Sherman learned that harsh reality over the winter when he came across two large groups of illegal immigrants atop Mount Laguna.
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The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.
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Acknowledging the sometimes harsh realities of our own history should not be cause for self-flagellation and blame.
new
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Chavez, however, recognizes the pressures on him to make the leap from deconstructing the past to building new economic realities .
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They have not adapted themselves to the new reality .
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Social and employment policy must reflect these new realities .
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They had just one minute to pull us into a new reality and a new play.
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Then, he felt the world shift on its axis, and knew that a new reality had slotted into its place.
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This 1995 work is his first to grapple with the social changes of the new political reality .
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What he longed for was an end to the day and to the new , unlivable reality it had brought.
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As with Alcatel Alsthom, the company faces new realities in a changing market, the company spokesman said.
physical
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The content it attaches to physical reality makes the natural world autonomous; its quest is to determine what is.
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The bull, then, becomes an example of the unity of male and female experience within physical reality .
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It seems that the nine-month gestation period has a psychological as well as a physical reality in human life.
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Electrons can not wholly disappear without having any effect on the rest of physical reality .
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Einstein and his collaborators had, therefore, to be very careful how they defined what they meant by physical reality .
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This is what classical physics has taught us about the nature of physical reality .
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It's the way our system of physical reality works.
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Mathematical equations lead us to physical realities .
political
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Yet here again political realities asserted themselves.
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It will take far more than this book to help you make your own judgments regarding political reality .
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Perceptions are simply a vision of political realities .
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This first budget also reflects practical and political realities .
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At the same time, economic and political realities had to be accommodated.
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And then the Colorado legislature threw the cold water of political reality on the process.
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Nevertheless, while in legal theory there may be complete flexibility, the political reality may be quite different.
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True / false. Political reality is as important as environmental reality.
social
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Exploitation and oppression will be concepts of history which have no place in the description of contemporary social reality .
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Instead it is argued that the unusual social profile of lawbreakers did reflect social reality .
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This is not to deny, of course, that crime and violence in contemporary society is an important social reality .
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Deviation is managed and progressively denied by continual renegotiation of the social reality against which it is set off.
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The position of women as subjects in sociology may give a distorted impression of social reality .
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But ideas which are determined by social reality are not, because they are so determined, necessarily erroneous.
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It is a matter of their input systems being tuned to the contours of this physical and this social reality .
stark
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It was how I'd always imagined showbiz would be - far removed from the stark reality of Working Men's Clubs.
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As a nation, we are right to finally confront the stark reality of needless suffering among the dying.
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Faced with the stark reality of a choice between jobs or no jobs, the majority had elected to work.
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But the stark reality of the Highland scene described reminds me of another idyllic circumstance that went the rounds about this time.
virtual
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When this happens, we will encounter a strange blurring of the edges between virtual and true realities .
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But these Escondido students have elevated the missions to near virtual reality status.
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At the moment virtual reality has a rather lightweight reputation, and has not really made its mark outside the entertainment industry.
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For some, the new Times Square is itself an exercise in virtual reality come to life.
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MultiGen, meantime, has been made more powerful through a number of virtual reality options.
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Peeshaw with your Nintendo and your virtual reality !
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For all the hype, this is really just a glorified amusement arcade with a few virtual-reality rides thrown in.
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Some managers come away from virtual reality demonstrations with unhealthy visions of holograms dancing in their heads.
■ NOUN
check
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I needed-what do they call that?-a reality check .
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Such feedback can be valuable as a reality check and provide you support when you actually implement your plan.
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Well, the first loss to Kentucky in 75 years and an imminent losing season is bringing forth a rude reality check .
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It is really important to get regular reality checks from those we love and trust.
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Mayor, why don't you drive around and get a reality check ?
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Your accountant can do a reality check on your projections.
■ VERB
accept
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We have to accept that the reality is that we are always already on the slope, holding a position.
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That is, one who is a monotheist does not accept the ontological reality of idols.
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I've learnt so much from other families in the same situation and it's helped me to accept the realities .
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We accept this and accept the realities .
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It's easier to find excuses for poor customer service than accept reality and do something about it.
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The puff pieces are then accepted as reality by those who inspired them..
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He seemed to be much better equipped to accept political realities than I was.
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Citizens will accept this for reality .
become
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We want something written into the Bill that makes it likely that some of the consumer safeguards will become a reality .
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To become a reality , electronic commerce needs a network infrastructure to transport the content.
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But could this fantasy of genetic engineering ever become reality ?
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Hope had betrayed her into thinking dreams could become reality .
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Neither will likely become a reality this year, for political and substantive reasons.
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We shall have to see if one of the more interesting measures in the Budget ever becomes reality .
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Some of these visions, like Zionism and socialism, may occasionally become reality .
bring
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He was brought in touch with reality , he was thawed out.
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Meanwhile, the planners said the next five years are crucial in bringing their vision to reality .
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Sometimes it was necessary to shout at him to bring him back to reality .
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Guttenberg and Quinlan are attractive, capable players able to bring some degree of reality to their single parents.
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Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience, all of whom shared two characteristics.
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Which brings us back to reality and mythology.
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This m lange makes for a diverse mixture, brought together by the reality of the distribution of Knesset seats.
create
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Rather than inventing a unique fictional world, it creates a recognisable reality that calls for accuracy.
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Sure, I admit that I no longer can create my own reality .
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If we create our own reality , we create our own future.
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When I finally accepted that I create my own reality , I was excited but scared.
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Hang on a minute ... If we create our own reality , then how can we ever be justified in feeling angry?
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Then I reminded myself that I create my own reality !
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Are you willing to take responsibility for your life, to accept that we create our own reality ?
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After all, we create our own reality .
escape
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A dream citadel where Billy escapes from his day-mare realities .
face
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For Rosenberg, faced with the realities of the world, the canvas would become the site of an existential encounter.
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I always face reality too late: a fact which Lisa had pointed out to me before I left London.
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It is a lack, a disqualification, an inability to face the reality of their child's disability.
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In a wide-open auction, broadcasters would face a harsh economic reality .
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It is certainly not enough to face reality bluntly if the future develops as I describe it.
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If individuals are forced to face the reality of starvation, everyone will buckle down to work.
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I share this hesitation; but I also feel compelled to face reality .
reflect
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Social and employment policy must reflect these new realities .
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Attitudes and speech patterns remain in place long after they no longer reflect reality .
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The content of core programmes will continue to evolve to reflect the changing reality of the business environment.
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The appearance is one of thoroughness, but whether the assumptions reflect reality can usually be questioned.
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Although this picture no longer accurately reflects the reality of many modern corporate structures, legal rules still rest upon the old idea.
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Other viewpoints reflected a different reality .
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Nevertheless, the second surely comes closer to reflecting the realities and passions of the 1930s.
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But how well does the show reflect the reality of policing suburbia?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Delane turned to drugs as an escape from reality .
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Small children often can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a result, a heavy dose of reality has descended on the Buchanan campaign.
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As it turned out, they had all the problems one would reasonably expect, given their experiential reality .
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But I have suggested that these three viewpoints express different ways of knowing and relating to one complex multi-layered reality .
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But it refers to a religious reality that is so basic and so universal its equivalent has been found almost everywhere.
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But the reality of biology is much more complicated.
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Now, as the barriers come down between East and West, that prospect will become a reality .
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There are realities that I can not change.