literal

It is a literal citadel with a natural, crystal-blue moat surrounding it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The White House soon made the conceit almost embarrassingly literal.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

A supernatural action thriller fueled by literal fairy-tale romance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

And when I say you should meticulously track your spending, I mean break it down by day to the literal dollar.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

There, at the climax of every show, he sits down in a comfortable chair to think — a chair known, of course, in the literal world of Blue’s Clues, as the Thinking Chair.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

But maybe not in the literals sense, but it’s about the price that you pay for things, that it’s a cost.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2015

Instead, Apple patched up Objective-C and XCode over the years, introducing incremental features like Grand Central Dispatch, collection literals, and blocks, making the whole edifice increasingly labyrinthine and ad hoc.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2014

Mike read, following the lines with his pen, correcting the literals, and he cursed when the "devil" told him that ten more lines of copy were wanting to complete page nine.

From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore

“Those fellows of yours make more literals every day.”

From The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn