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The phrase "actually looking like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or appears to be a certain way, often in a surprising or unexpected context.
Example: "The painting is actually looking like a photograph, which is quite impressive."
Alternatives: "truly resembling" or "genuinely appearing as".
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If you go to its careers webpage, you'll see an actual woman, in an actual hardhat, actually looking like she knows what she's doing (without a bloke standing by, just in case she doesn't, as is usual when women are shown actually doing things).
There's a very fine line between appearing cosmopolitan and actually looking like a fool.
And if we really must have tongue we certainly don't want it serving up actually looking like a tongue.
Still, the dramatic force of opera has never depended on singers' actually looking like the swashbuckling heroes, Norse gods and nubile princesses they portray.
You'd think it would be difficult enough to come up with a comedy that is serious about gender politics without actually looking like it is "about" gender politics.
"When I started on Tomb Raider, Lara already had her more realistically proportioned look, plus actually looking like a young woman who had dressed herself," she said.
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