What is another word for when in fact?

Pronunciation: [wˌɛn ɪn fˈakt] (IPA)

When in fact refers to a situation where a statement or belief turns out to be incorrect or false. There are a number of synonymous phrases that can be used to convey the same meaning. These include phrases such as "actually," "in reality," "truthfully," "really," "in fact," "as a matter of fact," "contrary to popular belief," "despite what people may think," "although it may seem otherwise," "regardless of appearances," and "surprisingly." Each of these phrases highlights the contrast between what is believed or assumed and what is actually true, helping to clarify and emphasize the reality of a particular situation or circumstance.

What are the hypernyms for When in fact?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with When in fact

  • A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.
    Octavia Butler
  • There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village.
    Roma Downey
  • A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
    Blanche Lincoln
  • This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
    Bill Maher
  • The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
    Peter S. Jennison

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