so "hurricane" is a metaphor?
"often used" is not the exclusive use...
christ man think
I agree that by the textbook definition it could be used in the way you are attempting to use it, but...
Not once in literature or conversation have I ever seen/heard that word used to imply something is exactly the words that comes after it. Example?
Precisely as you mispelled earlier
The weather today was a vertiable hurricane.
the weather was a true hurricane (as correctly noted by veritable)
or
the weather was truly a hurricane (as also something that could be correctly noted by veritably)
lol, no its a metaphor for its raining very hard outside.
Veritable doesn't mean exactly "true."
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