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“Mona Iraqi is responsible for 25 families losing their lives,” he said, speaking figuratively.

Our Sun is fairly quiet as stars go, but it does have active times that impact us here on Earth, both figuratively and literally.

Once a pampered princeling, Yarvi cannot single-handedly succeed (literally or figuratively) and so must become a leader.

The poor—literally and figuratively—Wheel of Fortune contestant managed to produce three epic fails in a single episode.

He repeated the same trick later on in his speech, starting a riff with "Take Obamacare—not literally, but figuratively."

It is combined with these consonant elements in order to invite it forward and bring it to a point (figuratively speaking).

The term covenant designating their relation to him as a people is not figuratively applied to it.

Literally and figuratively, their lives seemed to wander through flowery pleasure-paths.

As soon as we returned from the inspection trip, the boss pulled off his coat—figuratively speaking—and rolled up his sleeves.

These characteristics which differentiate beings can therefore be called qualities only figuratively.