He is the only coach to win three Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks (Joe Theismann, Doug Williams and Mark Rypien) and he literally invented the one-back offense and a position called H-back.

"Ron literally invented the business of direct-response TV sales," says Mr. Bryant, who recalls being persuaded to buy a Veg-O-Matic as a young man.

I'm really proud of that as I literally invented that chord.

We are literally inventing the wheel out here.

"If you are a wine maker, there comes a point at which you put your intellect on hold and let your senses take over, and it is then that I get a genuine thrill, seeing someone pleased by something I invented literally from the ground up," he said.

"You haven't seen this format before because we're literally still inventing it."

This is the real art: making robust code by literally inventing conventions that make errors stand out on the screen.

Case and McGuire literally invented a rivalry.

I grew up in a church that more or less literally invented the mea culpa.

The Jews literally invented their own cuisine.