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Yet they always resurface, often with a vengeance, never more so than in a climactic swerve that sends Misty to Dubai and involves a very literal reminder of “the bag.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“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

“Unfortunately, I mean that in the literal, dead-mouse-eating sense.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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