Sentence examples for literally common from inspiring English sources

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It's literally common ground.

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If it is so, then misuses of literally are common sense raving: we know that the fans behind the goalpost haven't literally gone insane (Jamie Redknapp) and that Messi doesn't literally send people out of the stadium (Jamie Redknapp).

(Note that the Aristotelian concept of koine aisthesis, although it translates literally as "common sense," is unrelated to the modern colloquial meaning of that expression).

Disjunctivism is not best construed as it is by one of its proponents, as the view "that there is nothing literally in common" in perception and hallucination, "no identical quality" (Putnam (1999: 152)).

In an election season marked by deep divisions, the National Wildlife Federation and 41 other sportsmen's organizations have a suggestion for finding - literally - common ground.

A commons is an unregulated public resource — in the classic example, in Garrett Hardin's essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" (1968), it is literally a commons, a public pasture on which anyone may graze his cattle.

The assumption about possibility is that possible worlds are concrete spatio-temporal things (in the way that roads are) and that worlds can overlap (literally share a common part) in the way that roads can overlap.

While Macy has literally nothing in common with his on-screen character, Frank in Shameless, in the interview he displayed incredible compassion for his character, explaining that Frank and all the Gallaghers are only inches away from falling into irreversible turmoil and devastation.

This measure compares the market value of a firm's tangible common equity (literally the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding) against its book value (the stated value of its assets minus the face value of its liabilities).

The practice of taking possible worlds to be merely convenient fictions, or of treating talk about possible worlds as being useful without being literally correct, is quite common in philosophical circles.

They get in by infecting civil discourse and overpowering people in swarms, polluting safe spaces, literally vomiting into the common coffee machines.

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