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The hauntings become increasingly literal as the story’s tenuous trappings of reality begin to slide away, replaced by phantasms and otherworldly visions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

"We found the literal opposite of what we expected if you treat the bats with a lethal dose of this chemical," he said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

Unless this fish was topped with literal caviar, the meal you’re describing doesn’t sound like it would be near $500, especially if guests were also contributing sides and appetizers.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

It is fenced in and gilded, with literal gold.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

“Eureka! This is it! Sister Germaine’s literal translation of Martin the Warrior’s Abbey blueprints.”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

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

From The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

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