metaphoric

For some, it means sacking every town and metaphoric sail away with all the gold.

These are questions of decision, not fact; decision as to whether to adopt a certain metaphoric extension of common usage.

This is a false Einstein quote paraphrased by Bob Samples in his book Metaphoric Mind: A Celebration of Creative Consciousness.

Pick your battles, as the saying goes, and this list has a lot of metaphoric hills that aren't worth dying on.

In a shared hallucinated dream/reality our bodies and planet, if not real, may serve as a metaphoric language for some purpose.

Could this mean that Facebook is positioning itself as the AWS (in a very metaphoric sense) for mobile and expanding opportunities for the Facebook kapp ecosystem?

If survival was not based on winning the metaphoric lottery, the rest could engage in creative work and experimentation, leading to a renaissance in entrepreneurship and the arts.

If I look at someone's LinkedIn profile and see a slew of jobs listed in months, not years, their resume is going in the (metaphoric) trash.

If my assumption is incorrect and no one is interested, I will humbly tuck my metaphoric tail between my legs and refrain from posting such things again.

While I can sympathise with anyone who has learnt OpenGL, I think he is talking about non-metaphoric, actual death, the kind that results in you being actually dead, ie heart stopped, not breathing, will never see or speak again - that kind of death.

Then, when a sentence permits metaphoric and literal interpretations and you stick "literally" in it, nothing changes - it can still be either metaphoric or literal.

The only solution I see is using "really literally" to mean that your sentence isn't metaphoric.

As sp332 pointed out, this randomizer uses a metaphoric “bag” throughout which you take all the 7 pieces that it contains.

I have never seen the free market be offered as "the solution" to a metaphoric asymmetric conflict.