Because they are literally hounded to speak at every single tech event in the world because they are all trying so hard to find qualified women to speak at their conference.

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They are literally decaying as we speak and the heat they generate affects the components of the weapons every day.

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Perhaps the most important takeaway from this book, however, is that in order to excel one must speak up both literally and figuratively.

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They speak the language not only literally but culturally.

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In some places, "the wolf is coming back, nature is taking over, so to speak, and it's really literally only old people" left, says Harald Wilkoszewski, a political scientist with Population Europe, a collaborative network of European demographic research centers.

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"We can literally influence the wiring of the brain, rewiring the brain, so to speak, to allow them to make new neural connections, and hopefully to restore movement to a paralyzed arm, " Jackson said.

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