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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

If you’re a fan already, much of the storytelling will be redundant, though the insight into the subject and his psychology—illuminated through dramatic animated sequences featuring literal demons—may be quite welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Perhaps from this mentality, as well as from uncritical literal copying, came the medieval habit of reporting reported observations and experiments as if they were original.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

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)

“Those fellows of yours make more literals every day.”

From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville