literal

“It’s territorial in a literal physical sense — the ground, your backyard, your community, the park that you love.”

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

“The end” in this scenario is literal — it’s the end of the saver’s lifetime.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Also: a very honorable mention to Meg Stalter dressed as a literal Emmy statue.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

I’d felt the derision directed at my body, the literal space I occupied in the world.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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