Adverb
you don't have to record the professor's comments word for word in your notes
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An exhibit shows 100 other situations in which OpenAI’s GPT was trained on and memorized articles from the Times, with word-for-word copying.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2026 Students mostly stuck to word-for-word renderings, but even in that limited way, wasn’t the exposure to how people think in other languages somehow world-opening?—Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2026
Adverb
That evening, during the prime-time news on Channel 12, a military reporter named Nir Dvori relayed the story nearly word for word.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2026 The names and phone numbers change, but much of the sales pitch remains almost word for word.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for word-for-word