literal

Example Sentences

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Given the IRS’s guidance and admonitions, tax professionals said, most taxpayers didn’t roll the dice on that literal reading.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Are they really the best people to determine what is excessive use of force, given the literal millions of dollars that we’re seeing paid out in settlement because of use of force by LAPD?”

From Los Angeles Times

From the days of Elijah to the promises of Jeremiah, these hills were a literal, geographical place.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pierre Schoeman paints pictures, not in the literal sense but with his words, imagery and unique takes on what it's like being a prop.

From BBC

Throughout it all, the first lady remains relentlessly poised and personally inaccessible, lending new and literal meaning to the term “statuesque.”

From Los Angeles Times