literally

Moreover, human individuals and institutions "invest," metaphorically, or even literally, in other individuals or institutions to enhance their own returns. From the Cambridge English Corpus

For even if features of the world were literally represented in brains/ minds, these representations would not explain cognition. From the Cambridge English Corpus

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