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“I chose science because science gave me what I needed,” she writes, “a home as defined in the most literal sense: a safe place to be.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Convery has nicely feathered hair and a character burdened by the plot’s corniest contrivances: a bully stubbornly pursuing him to the literal end of civilization, a lost pet dog that he’s determined to rescue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

The White House soon made the conceit almost embarrassingly literal.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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

Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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