See literally in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 142:",
"text": "Lights were going out. A raid! A raid! It was a panic, literally, in a whorehouse!",
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"ref": "1991, Douglas Coupland, “Dead at 30 Buried at 70”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 31:",
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"ref": "2021 January 7, Luke Broadwater, Emily Cochrane, “Inside the Capitol, the Sound of the Mob Came First”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
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"text": "On 9/11 people were literally glued to their TV sets.",
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"ref": "1827, Sir Walter Scott, “Appendix to Introduction”, in Chronicles of the Canongate, archived from the original on 2021-06-15:",
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"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "tačno tako"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "doslova"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "literalmente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"tags": [
"Latin-America",
"informal"
],
"word": "literal"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "textualmente"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "bokstavligen"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "bokstavligt talat"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "süzgä-süz",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "сүзгә-сүз"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "hiç üzgärtmiçä",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "һич үзгәртмичә"
},
{
"code": "tt",
"lang": "Tatar",
"roman": "süzen süzgä",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "сүзен сүзгә"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "harfiyen"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "resmen"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bukválʹno",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "буква́льно"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "literálʹno",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "літера́льно"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "u prjamómu sénsi",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "у прямо́му се́нсі"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "not as an intensifier",
"word": "لفظی معنی"
}
],
"word": "literally"
}
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