literalize
verb (used with object)
literalization
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a word derived from
literalize.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the feeling is fey; other times the literalization of song ideas flirts with corniness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
He seems to leave home only to buy chocolate at a local newsstand or, once, after noticing a pain in his foot, to have an ingrown toenail removed, an apt literalization of his enervating self-involvement.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
They were picking it up and leaving with it, and it was such a wonderful literalization of the transmission of ideas.’’
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2016
Of course, we don’t get to do that, and it takes more than the literalization of a metaphor to make it fly.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2014
Laughter in the Dark is a literalization of the axiom, "Love is blind."
From Time Magazine Archive
