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Unreally

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Un`re´al`ly
adv.1.In an unreal manner; ideally.


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In the short run of the next few years we can learn from the failure of American progressives to accurately gauge the burgeoning power of fundamentalism in the 1970s, and recognise that understanding and contesting the influence of the fundamentalist Right will be of paramount importance--not only in the interests of a fair and pluralist society, but in genuinely addressing the real problems that such groups so unreally use.
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