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you can't just copy the encyclopedia article verbatim for your report—that's plagiarism
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Recent Examples of verbatim
Inserting it into a resume verbatim and leaving it just like that, is lazy.
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Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Levithan wrote this moment almost verbatim into the novel.
—Katy Hershberger
august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Gone already are the days when using AI to write an essay meant copying and pasting its response verbatim.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2025
De Groot also lifted at least two recipes verbatim from his previous book, and appeared to get a few handwritten ones from Girard and Artaud.
—John Birdsall, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
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Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Levithan wrote this moment almost verbatim into the novel.
—Katy Hershberger
august 26, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
Gone already are the days when using AI to write an essay meant copying and pasting its response verbatim.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2025
De Groot also lifted at least two recipes verbatim from his previous book, and appeared to get a few handwritten ones from Girard and Artaud.
—John Birdsall, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbatim
Adverb
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Although the balloon incident has not been directly linked to Moscow, Lithuania's border closures add to tensions spiked by accusations of Russian incursions into NATO airspace amid Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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The dagger of a late third-period goal came directly in front of him.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Grokipedia accurately states that as of October 2025, Wikipedia had more than 7 million articles in English, in the main entry about its older rival.—
NPR,
NPR,
29 Oct. 2025
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But Taneka Bowles and Kiya Tomlin didn’t get the memo about staying in the background (and both are literally going beyond the bleachers, as Bowles Instagram name accurately describes).—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
29 Oct. 2025
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Like other key aspects of the agreement, that influx did not go exactly as planned.—
Hana Kiros,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
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The jewelry that were snatched also sparked plenty of discussion online, with everyone clamouring to see exactly what the thieves took.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Verbatim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbatim. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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