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literally

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Except, they are literally too perfect, according to a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Birmingham, Mark Lee.

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"I literally ran into the Co-op to get some snacks and chatted to Jen who works there and came back out again. I hadn't locked the car. I'm an idiot."

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As anyone who has spent time in a hair salon knows, the human comedy is on full display as relative strangers literally and figuratively let their hair down.

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The former editor of Kerrang! magazine, Mr Alexander said when Osbourne was at his lowest ebb, music had a restorative power, adding: "You literally see it in front of your very eyes."

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"Then literally the windows just blew in around us."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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