The final stage of this semantic history has been the popularisation of ideas about "emotional intelligence," "emotional literacy," and "emotional well-being," which have themselves virtually become "everyday" phrases.
Although the minuscule difference is virtually unnoticeable in everyday common experience, when we in fact notice it, we cannot decide if we are experiencing the past or the present, if we are experiencing the present or the future.
The word socialist has virtually become an everyday talking point since the Obama administration moved in at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
This self-described "micro donation platform" from Australian creators allows you to "shout," or virtually pledge, an everyday item to the non-profit or cause of your choice.
For the 1969 event, Armco barriers were placed at specific points for the first time in the circuit's history; before that, the circuit's conditions were (aside from the removal of people's production cars parked on the side of the road) virtually identical to everyday civilian use.
A decade later a Xerox researcher, Mark Weiser, came up with a radically different idea — ubiquitous computing — in which tiny computers disappear into virtually every workaday object to add intelligence to the everyday world.
As if such a practice doesn't occur everyday at virtually every branch office at virtually every brokerage firm?
The criminal economy, wild violence, pervasive delinquency, and the terror of gangs became the most significant problems of everyday life in virtually every country.
Which is what has been happening more and more recently, reflecting the role that recorded reality and screens large and small now play in virtually every aspect of everyday lives.
