"real-life" meaning in English

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      "form": "more real-life",
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      "form": "most real-life",
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        "superlative"
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          "text": "He was a real-life detective before playing one in the movies.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55",
          "text": "Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7",
          "text": "In addition, as far as we were aware, there were no published data that quantified real-life speech practices in Singapore beyond census reportage, but we had no reason to conclude a priori that the distribution of languages spoken at NIE would match census data.",
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        "As happens in real life; not fictional or theoretical; actual as opposed to believed or assumed."
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          "fictional",
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          "theoretical",
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          "actual",
          "actual"
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          "believed",
          "believed"
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          "assumed",
          "assumed"
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        "superlative"
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        },
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          "ref": "2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55",
          "text": "Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.",
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