Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Actually happening or having happened; not fictional.
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- adjective As happens in
real life ; notfictional .
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Examples
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In the movies it has been hit by meteors and attacked by alien spaceships but now Los Angeles is preparing for what officials are describing as a real-life "Carmageddon."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In the movies it has been hit by meteors and attacked by alien spaceships but now Los Angeles is preparing for what officials are describing as a real-life "Carmageddon."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Mr Prodromou, who has been described as a real-life Crocodile Dundee, said he hoped to convince people to listen to him.
Evening Standard - Home Tony Bonnici 2012
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The story referred to real-life bellboy Johnny Roventini of Brooklyn, who was discovered in 1933 by adman Milton Biow at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan.
THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007
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In the beginning, it was used exclusively for sports stories and a lot of people were skeptical - namely, real-life sports journalists.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The Wolfman - described as a real-life Rambo - was previously been hunted by police after it emerged he had turned to petty crime to survive the harsh winter in the woodlands near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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The partners, Jerry and Jeremiah Pasternak, are being described as a real-life "Sanford and Son."
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At the battle’s start Zeus sent a rainstorm of blood, which might refer to the real-life phenomenon of showers that deposit red dust carried from the Sahara Desert, still seen in the Aegean today.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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At the battle’s start Zeus sent a rainstorm of blood, which might refer to the real-life phenomenon of showers that deposit red dust carried from the Sahara Desert, still seen in the Aegean today.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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The aim is to use the story of the real-life Mizner brothers as a metaphor for America.
Road Show – review 2011
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