literal
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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
It was over in a flash, with half a dozen songs or so, meaning for the tens of thousands of campers here it was a literal case of if you snooze, you lose.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Even so, some experts get pretty literal in their readings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
This, I should have known, was too much for his literal and sausage-like mind.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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)
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