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literally

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“Like, literally, because if he formally makes this announcement, you know, there’s gonna be some significant price changes, right?”

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“He is literally changing college football,” Downton said, “and changing Vanderbilt football.”

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“We’d literally scramble with a shower, put on our business casual with our dress shirts on, belt, tie, dress shoes,” Mendoza said.

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Martin’s collaborators say he’s just as obsessive, willing to “stay up literally for three days just to get a drum sound right,” according to Martin Dodd, an A&R executive who worked with the producer.

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Mr. Ambar does not spare us the horrifying details of each brutal mob act: As Lincoln described one scene, “dead men were seen literally dangling from the boughs of trees” like “Spanish moss.”

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