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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actual thought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing genuine or real ideas, opinions, or reflections that someone has.
Example: "After much deliberation, I finally expressed my actual thought on the matter during the meeting."
Alternatives: "genuine opinion" or "true reflection".
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It made me have the actual thought: "Man, that Mandy Patinkin is one subtle actor".
He's the weaker actor!" is an actual thought I began to have.
There is not one point where I have to muster an actual thought.
The cynical would say that an SEO specialist sees people only as datapoints, incapable of actual thought or ideology.
"Of the gnarled fingers, the scars, the old grief and mistrust — nothing could be seen": this has the dynamic intermittence of actual thought.
When he asked to marry me, my actual thought was, 'Why not?' It was pure, astounding good luck that it turned out to be the right person.
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No actual thoughts, only feelings: mournfulness, woe, and, finally, a spark of defiant anger.
This is what Garbo was such a master of: actual thoughts that had not occurred before that particular take.
His family, in particular, remains an enigma — what are his actual thoughts about his father's profession, beyond the exotic pedigree it bestowed on him?
At rest, Xi wears a permanently placid half-smile that suggests confidence, even if his actual thoughts are unknowable at this point.
"More often than not," he writes, "psychological complexity exists only in novels, as authors fill in details absent from protagonists' actual thoughts".
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