How vague and lacking in evidence does a phenomenon have to be before we accept that it is not real?
One critic I recently read argued that it is not real barbecue if they serve it on actual plates.
Brave has a lush rich look, but it is not real.
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It's not a real voice because it is not a real choice.
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"Even if she wore a headscarf here, we know it is not her real self because she performs differently in other places, " he said.
Our proposal: have a representative of Louis Vuitton put the bag side by side with the ones in the store, and show us, feature for feature, why it is or is not the real thing.
The Vatican Bank - known officially as the Institute for Works of Religion - has hitherto exempted itself from international banking regulations on the grounds that it is not a real bank in the normal sense of the word, our correspondent says.
Sometimes, though, it is not possible to detect whether a note is real or not just by looking at it.
It is about easy chairs and television, not real change, It is about listening to slogans and jingles instead of the issues.
It is spending that is the real issue, not the difference between spending and anything else.
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It's just is not real for a lot of people yet.
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Despite some initial concerns about privacy, most Gmail users are savvy enough to know that it is the computer software, not a real person, which is reading their e-mails.
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The first stage in an audit involves asking whether the organisation deserves to be considered at all: is it a real not-for-profit agency, committed to the relief of suffering?
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It is NOT like having a real conversation. (Live TV and radio interviews are slightly more like live conversations, but even still they are not exactly the same.) In a real conversation, you have context, you understand the context and usually your audience understands the context.
It is not clear how much of this growth is real, and how much is due to more accurate data-gathering.
Because the Framingham Heart Study is not a randomized controlled trial, it's still not clear if vitamin D is the real reason for the link (the vitamin's levels could drop in unhealthy people for other reasons), or if taking a supplement would lower the risk.
When unemployment rates are high, it is not difficult to find the real reasons.
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M-commerce is not about five years from now, it is something real and present.
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For Helen it is a very real struggle not to become another statistic.
The problem is that it's not real, says Joanna Lipari, a clinical psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Simply put, it is not terribly good preparation for real life to teach students that they will be protected, by timid and risk-averse administrators, from hearing disturbing speech.
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The exhibition brings together many versions of his Sunflowers, and although it is not as good as the real thing, it's still quite something to see them on page after page in the book.
And it is not just the U.S. Global real broad money growth is close to zero.
As one observer in Berlin puts it, Germany's real fear is not that the euro zone unravels to the Alps, but that it collapses all the way up to the Rhine.
Fed meddling is not needed because it can do real harm to the real economy.
Is it not time to see some real common sense come into play?
It is a useful reminder that this is the real stuff of politics not the banal theatrics of presidential debates.
Believe it or not, it is possible to be a highly successful lawyer, real estate developer or Internet entrepreneur and never have invested in the stock market.
But to hear Mr. Schmidt tell it, the real challenge is one not yet on most investors' minds: how to preserve Google's franchise in Web advertising, the source of almost all its profits, when "search" is outmoded.
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