The phrase "actual present" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the current moment or the time that is happening right now, often in contrast to past or future events.
Example: "In the actual present, we must focus on the challenges we face today rather than dwelling on past mistakes."
Alternatives: "current moment" or "present time".
"I wanted an actual present, like a doll," she recalls.
Women boasted when the recipient failed to realize that the actual present was money.
Arsenal's Héctor Bellerín is quite good, which may be why Manchester City and Barcelona are, were or will be interested in him at some point in the recent past, near future or actual present.
I want a poem to contain as much of time as I can possibly wrap my arms around — flashing back, gazing forward, while trying, too, to ground the poem in some actual present.
The support displacement study consists of an inverse analysis aimed at determining the actual present state of the structure from the cracking pattern observed on the bridge.
The most frightening atrocities are those that touch on Argentina's actual present and past, as if to remind us that the true source of evil is not supernatural but man-made.
All the excitement has coincided with news in the actual, present-day north that our town's much-loved library faces closure.
Unfortunately, however, this can severely disrupt our actual, present-moment, in-person relationships, which also tend to be our most important ones.
It is, first of all, said to be impossible to determine the actual present-day effect of slavery -- to trace the impact of slavery on, for example, today's overwhelming incarceration rate among black males, or to calculate all those generations of lost or artificially depressed wages.
The word "award" is substituted for the word "present" to cover the determination of the recipient as well as the actual presenting of the decoration.
Jason, the film clearly picks a favorite as the shark ends up committing 90% of the onscreen violence in the picture (in FvJ, Fred Kruger killed I think one person in the actual present-tense narrative).
