literally
Example Sentences
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Sheen said he was a huge fan of the show, adding he had "quite literally very large shoes to fill".
From BBC
“I literally think all the marks are wrong,” Apollo’s John Zito said of private equity in previously unreported comments.
Years later, he literally mobilized an army to prevent that brief indiscretion from destroying his political ambitions.
From Barron's
“The bad news is that there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars of investments and interest in trying to push AI into every corner of our lives … and the dangers are being brushed aside.”
From Los Angeles Times
“A headline could literally make or break you,” Denier said.
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