Dead
In fact
In fact adverb - In reality or actuality.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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The dead man isn't really dead—in fact, the "corpse" is a wax dummy—and the coroner is in on the whole thing.
Source: The Coroner -
Well, all of them are in fact not quite dead, but living skeletons who spent eternity on the cemetery, while he takes care of them and occasionally tells them frankly to obey the rules.
Source: Not Quite Dead - This doesn't mean that every character reported dead is, in fact, dead, even when No-One Could Survive That.
Source: All Deaths Final
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