Sentence examples for actually but not from inspiring English sources

The phrase "actually but not" is not standard or commonly used in written English.
It may be used in informal contexts to express a contrast or contradiction, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "I thought I understood the concept, but actually but not, I was completely lost."
Alternatives: "in fact, but not" or "actually, though not".

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They do actually but not quite like this, not in the flesh.

Fiendishly clever and efficient, actually, but not as interesting a player as one would expect from Robinson, who reserves the full character treatment for his protagonists.

They're all unhappy, actually, but not in a real way, only at the end of the second act when it looks like things are going sour and everyone has to have big, important, heart-to-heart conversations with one another.

There is a little bit of weed and cocaine – quite a lot, actually, but not flaunted, as it were, under the reader's nose – and some discussion of guitars and the occasional backstage tantrum, but rather more about his son Ben, who was born with cerebral palsy and is quadriplegic, and his own childhood polio and the brain aneurism that attacked him in 2005.

Tilton is incredibly wealthy, one of America's richest self-made women actually, but not in the ten digit club: her net worth is closer to $600 million, and under increasing pressure.

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Well, it's not actually, but wouldn't it be great if it was?

It's not actually cruel, but not very positive either.

All arrays that are expressly adjustable are actually adjustable, but not necessarily vice versa.

It's actually: Burlington, but not the town in Vermont.

The second subpopulation consists of baris where cholera is actually prevalent but not reported, "false" zeroes.

Well there is a difference actually, but perhaps not that implied by the word 'employee'employee

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