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It's literally true.

I am talking about threats that are so severe or pervasive that they literally get under our skin and change our physiology: things like abuse or neglect, or growing up with a parent who struggles with mental illness or substance dependence.

In fact, in some ways there's literally an infinite number of questions that we can ask about our city.

It was designed to be quite playful so that people would literally engage with it.

I could literally see people's back straighten as they started to speak into the microphone.

So there are things that would literally make things a thousand times worse.

It was extraordinary to see, for example, old women telling me the stories of when they were five years old and literally ripped away from their parents, like this lady here.

I started in my 20s trading commodities, cotton in particular, in the pits, and if there was ever a free market free-for-all, this was it, where men wearing ties but acting like gladiators fought literally and physically for a profit.

We're literally off the chart.

When I realized that, I literally wanted to throw up.

Here's what happened: At the time when life exploded at the surface of the Earth, then everything went south for Mars, literally.

It literally is that basic a way of making a sound.

(Audio: "Mary Had a Little Lamb") And so, again, that sounds distorted, but what's really amazing here is that we were able to do this with something that you could literally run out and pick up at a Best Buy.

From little huts to elaborate bridges like this one in Java, bamboo has been in use across the tropical regions of the world for literally tens of thousands of years.

RM: Ted literally wrote the book on flag design.

And by 1985, I realized that I was trying to accomplish something that was literally impossible, the reason being that all of my clients, all the animals whose interests I was trying to defend, were legal things; they were invisible.

A brisk -10 with windchill, and I could literally feel the blood trying to leave my hands, feet and face, and rush to protect my vital organs.

Our night sky is literally teeming with exoplanets.

If we could visit one of those planets, you literally would see two sunsets and have two shadows.

And this is actually how astronomers have studied objects in the heavens, literally, for over a century.

But back to exoplanets, the point is that life produces so many different types of gases, literally thousands of gases.

Now, this has to be made very precisely, literally, the petals to microns and they have to deploy to millimeters.

Now this is a real project that we worked on, literally, you would not believe how hard.

You know why they look like this, and why I broke my back literally to photograph them and present them to you?

I've just shown you two laboratory experiments out of literally hundreds in the field that make similar points, because the really critical point is that children's ability to make rich inferences from sparse data underlies all the species-specific cultural learning that we do.

Before I started this TED process and climbed up on this stage, I had told literally a handful of people about it, because, like many a journalist, I am far more interested in learning about your stories than sharing much, if anything, about my own.

That does not mean that we should take them literally.

CA: Don, I could literally talk with you for hours, and I hope to do that.

But in Hans Rosling's case, he had a secret weapon yesterday, literally, in his sword swallowing act.

And this kind of proof is the kind of proof that you need to learn when you're learning mathematics in order to get an idea of what it means before you look into the, literally, 1,200 or 1,500 proofs of Pythagoras' theorem that have been discovered.

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