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1 as the truth or facts of a situation:we must pay attention to what young people are actually doing 
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2 [sentence adverb] used to emphasize that something someone has said or done is surprising:he actually expected me to be pleased about it! 
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used when expressing a contradictory or unexpected opinion or correcting someone:�Tom�s happy anyway.� �He isn�t , actually, not any more.� 
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used to introduce a new topic or to add information to a previous statement:he had a thick Cockney accent � he sounded like my grandad actually