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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actual of course" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to convey a sense of reality or truthfulness, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "The results were actual, of course, as we had anticipated."
Alternatives: "indeed, of course" or "true, of course".
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Appropriately perhaps it's a line from the Scottish play that may act as his epitaph – political rather than actual, of course – that "nothing in his life became him like the leaving of it".
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The actual game, of course, is much more benign.
As well as cleaning up their actual shit, of course.
(Not the actual horse, of course, just its name).
There is no actual rape, of course, but there is betrayal and brutality.
Piggy has an actual name, of course, but we're never told it.
The actual number, of course, was six million, a figure that haunts Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke," a pacifist interpretation of the events leading to World War II.
There is no actual hall, of course, unless you count the passageway leading from the coat check to the rented hotel ballroom where the ceremony took place.
The actual rationale, of course, was to enable a fulfilling life by suppressing certain anxieties, so that citizens can pursue their life projects relatively undisturbed.
The actual relationship, of course, has always had its share of cavities and gingivitis, and the Vietnamese have been fending off various Chinese encroachments for a thousand years.
Not the actual Assange, of course, but the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, with platinum locks and an Aussie accent providing an uncanny simulacrum.
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