in point of fact

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in point of fact - in reality or actuality; "in fact, it was a wonder anyone survived"; "painters who are in fact anything but unsophisticated"; "as a matter of fact, he is several inches taller than his father"

as a matter of fact, in fact

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as a matter of fact
by the bye
causal factor
decisive factor

determining factor
fact
in fact
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He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

But in point of fact, these are not liquid spaces, but plains, the nature of which the travelers hoped soon to determine.

Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context

Now, however preposterous it may at first seem to talk of any creature's skin as being of that sort of consistence and thickness, yet in point of fact these are no arguments against such a presumption; because you cannot raise any other dense enveloping layer from the whale's body but that same blubber; and the outermost enveloping layer of any animal, if reasonably dense, what can that be but the skin?

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

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