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Recent Examples of nonliteral
In addition, neurodivergent women, such as those with autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, may be excluded from whisper networks because information is often shared using indirect or nonliteral language.
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Carrie Ann Johnson, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
Thirsty, even, in its most nonliteral meaning.
—Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
The New York Times is concerned about its subscribers’ intolerance for opposing views, not about nonliteral terminology about opposing pages.
—Nicholas Clairmont, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
Carrie Ann Johnson, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
Thirsty, even, in its most nonliteral meaning.
—Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
The New York Times is concerned about its subscribers’ intolerance for opposing views, not about nonliteral terminology about opposing pages.
—Nicholas Clairmont, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonliteral
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Hearing and watching them up close allowed this wide-eyed, slack-jawed teenager to experience a veritable jazz hall of fame — live and in real time — with back-to-back performances by some of the genre’s most influential artists of the 20th century.—
George Varga,
The Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Powerful streams of water from a veritable traffic jam of firetrucks were snatched by the wind and carried away as mist.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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According to an article by Piedmont Healthcare, resolutions often serve as a symbolic reset button, fueled by a surge of dopamine.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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In terms of the film’s relevance, the narrative sets up a symbolic situation that offers a glimmer of hope.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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There’s enough perverse, sometimes grimly funny particularity to their characterizations to complicate the allegorical leanings of the film’s script, written by the director with an anonymous collaborator, which etches micro-portraits of gaping human sadness in a larger panorama of mass tragedy.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
12 Dec. 2024
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Even Elio Vittorini’s Conversation in Sicily (1941), the most celebrated anti-Fascist Italian novel of the war years, operates in a murky, allegorical register; it couldn’t have been published otherwise.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Nonliteral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonliteral. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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