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really
adverb
Used to give emphasis
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ˈɹɪəlɪ
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adverb
Used to give emphasis
“She was very gifted”
adverb
In accordance with truth or fact or reality
“She was now truly American”
adverb
In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
“In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire”
adverb
In actual fact
“To be nominally but not actually independent”
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She was very gifted
He played very well
A really enjoyable evening
I'm real sorry about it
A rattling good yarn
She was now truly American
A genuinely open society
They don't really listen to us
In truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire
Really, you shouldn't have done it
A truly awful book
To be nominally but not actually independent
No one actually saw the shark
Large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt
Properly speaking, they are not husband and wife
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