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I will allude to the contrast of literally ("exact, verbatim") and figuratively ("metaphorical, symbolic") toward the end of this column, but first to Quinion's reference to the related seeing is believing.
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"[Blake] had been going through literally the exact same thing in literally the exact same time frame," she revealed.
However, attractive male servers who do literally the exact same thing often find that they have received no tip at all after being revived with smelling salts.
I'm literally the exact same weight as I was before: 12st 8lbs.
"Two legislators in New York saw the drug czar guidance and literally incorporated exact language from the ONDCP guidance into the bill". .
Two movie trailers have come out in the past week, one called Friends With Benefits (see trailer, NSFW) and one called No Strings Attached (see trailer, somewhat NSFW), that are literally the exact same premise, but with different, semi-interchangeable actors.
This is literally the exact opposite of the truth, in that one well-managed dispensary that consistently upholds the law eliminates the need for numerous others that might not.
Or will it do literally the exact opposite, as Warren Buffett wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed and "reduce employment in a major way, crushing many workers possessing only basic skills"?
It's literally the same exact terrain".
It's taking requests literally: only the exact pages requested for removal vanish and only when you search for them by the specified name.
So while users can't literally spec out exact interior shelving dimensions of a Tylko shelf, they can adapt a design by eye (and finger) to get something that's more to their liking.
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