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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

Well, for the first century of our republic, the border was a literal war zone.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

Other special events have similarly been designed to celebrate the flow of people and ideas both ways across the Atlantic - a shared heritage that can still be tasted today, in a very literal sense.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Even so, some experts get pretty literal in their readings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

“Okay, it’s kind of like a lost cat ad, except the cat’s actually a cute boy you met at the post office. But a human cute boy. Not a literal cat.”

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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 Fenn, George Manville

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 Moore, George (George Augustus)