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▸ adverb: (as a sentence adverb) Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.
Similar:
figurately,
metaphorically,
figurally,
unfiguratively,
literarily,
allegorically,
symbolically,
manneristically,
fictionally,
nonliterally,
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