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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
Gone already are the days when using AI to write an essay meant copying and pasting its response verbatim.
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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
In the documentary, entertainment greats like Belafonte and Smokey Robinson talk about the influence of Sullivan’s show, and through a recreation of Ed Sullivan’s voice, Sunday Best features Sullivan’s comments on racial issues over the years, verbatim from his letters, articles, and columns.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 July 2025
An analysis by The Tennessean found the statistics were taken nearly verbatim from a post on a book review website that allows users to report and catalog books considered to be explicit for children.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 14 July 2025
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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
In the documentary, entertainment greats like Belafonte and Smokey Robinson talk about the influence of Sullivan’s show, and through a recreation of Ed Sullivan’s voice, Sunday Best features Sullivan’s comments on racial issues over the years, verbatim from his letters, articles, and columns.
—Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 July 2025
An analysis by The Tennessean found the statistics were taken nearly verbatim from a post on a book review website that allows users to report and catalog books considered to be explicit for children.
—Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for verbatim
Adverb
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Sep. 2025
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The new School Partnership Program gives educators a way to quickly report safety concerns directly to Instagram.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
26 Sep. 2025
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Once tagged as an invest, additional data is gathered on the thunderstorm cluster, including its own computer model runs, to help forecasters more accurately predict its potential track and strength.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
24 Sep. 2025
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To accurately express an emotion, the sound has to be accurate.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images That is exactly the kind of performance that Chicago needed to see from its young franchise quarterback.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Sep. 2025
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Within that time, the company tested the Daily Edit internally and made a number of tweaks to the algorithm in an effort to play up exactly what feels important to its consumers.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Verbatim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbatim. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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