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The phrase "actually was not" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize a negation or contradiction to a previous statement or assumption.
Example: "I thought the meeting was at 10 AM, but it actually was not."
Alternatives: "in fact was not" or "truly was not".
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I actually was not fond of that shirt.
The voting actually was not done by kids.
But a check of data compiled by the National Weather Service revealed that this July actually was not as hot as July 2011.
In a way that actually was not measured, admittedly, but we're all adult enough to catch the drift of these elaborate concepts.
Taxed2Death asks: "How could you miss Martial, whose Epigrams tell us how Rome actually was, not how we imagine Rome to have been".
Was it possible that the intensity of this wish had made her believe that she was seeing in stereo when she actually was not?
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I actually wasn't as a child.
It's actually wasn't that bad".
Sometimes it actually wasn't.
"That actually wasn't so bad," she said.
"But I actually wasn't that surprised.
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