Kanye West

In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

American Rapper

Joe Biden

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I've met with, and I've met them all: It's never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

American President

Napoleon Hill

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

American Author

Tamlyn Tomita

You can't escape 'Star Trek' influence, especially characters you literally grew up with.

Japanese Actress

Lil Baby

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

American Musician

JPEGMAFIA

When I take from my influences, it's rare that I do it literally.

Ruth Rendell

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

British Writer

Ryan Bethencourt

Biohacking could literally change the world as we know it.

American Scientist

Selah Louise Marley

I've literally been all around the world in 80 days!

Jimmy Graham

In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

American Athlete

Use 'literally' when something happens in the most basic or strict sense. It's not a figure of speech.

Literal Meaning

Remember not to use 'literally' to exaggerate; use it for what actually happened.

No Exaggeration

In older texts, 'literally' often signals that the words should not be taken figuratively.

Historical Context

Use 'literally' to stress a fact or a feeling, but it’s understood that it might not be exactly true.

Emphatic Speech

Avoid using 'literally' with figurative language as it can confuse the listener or reader.

Avoid with Figurative

Be aware that 'literally' can be informal when used for emphasis and not accepted in formal writing.

Colloquial Expressions

 old women telling me the stories of when they were five years old and literally ripped away from their parents, like this lady here. It was extraordinary for me to then be able to embrace and to kiss Aboriginal elders as they came into the parliament building, and one woman said to me,

Are China and the US...

 literally out of the water. That was just unreal and I wasn't up there for too long before 'Poof' I was right back down underwater again. He was getting frustrated. He was and so at that point, I think he said, OK, fine, I'm just going to put you on my face.

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 hsbc to help the bank expand globally real words like uber and slack are ripped right out of a dictionary and suggest attributes or benefits uber literally means an outstanding example so it works well for a company with big broad bold ambitions beyond

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 another infinity. Some physicists think the space-time continuum is literally infinite, and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing? But quantum theory adds a whole new wrinkle.

How many universes are...

 Authors of science fiction and fantasy literally build worlds. They make rules, maps, lineages, languages, cultures, universes, alternate universes within universes, and from those worlds sprout story, after story, after story. When it's done well,

How to build a fictional...

 because we humans reflect on our world through symbolic stories of our own lives. You leave your comfort zone, have an experience that transforms you, and then you recover and do it again. You don't literally slay dragons or fight Voldemort,

What makes a hero? -...

 infinity. Some physicists think the space-time continuum is literally infinite and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing? Quantum theory adds a whole new wrinkle.

Questions No One Knows...

 All of a sudden you’re overlooking this amazing body of water with this huge cliff. I don’t think that I’ve seen that kind of a magical beach in my life. Like, jaw dropping. The water literally had like eight different shades of colours.

New Zealand's Stunning...

 When frigates join the hunt, the flying fish are literally caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Flying Fish Picked Off...

 when frigates join the hunt the flying fish are literally caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

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