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His staff, meanwhile, has spent hours handing out literal flyers on campus, hopeful that it will drum up interest.

Newby has said he had a crisis of faith at Duke when a professor challenged the literal truth of the Bible and he felt unprepared to defend it.

Republican Florida state representative Webster Barnaby accused trans people who testified against an anti-trans bill of being literal “demons and imps” who only “pretend that you are part of this world.”

True enough, but the more surprising part is that literal real-estate deals might have also helped secure the cease-fire.

“Irony does not involve the simple substitution of the opposite for the literal meaning.”