: Re: Replacing actually with a more formal alternative I have a sentence that reads as follows, "This study shows that performance of method X and method Y are almost identical in ranking task and

Since this appears to be a sentence from a scientific paper, I would think the reviewer's problem is not actually with the choice of word, but with lapsing from cold academic style.

In scientific papers the author is expected to stay detached from the results. This is an utter fiction, of course, as the whole point of publishing a paper is to boast in your success; but this is expected to be masked with an appearance of sober objectivity. The world "actually" here betrays emotions.

I second Kris's suggestion: it allows you to emphasize the result you are interested in, in a subtle way that would be acceptable in a scientific context.

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