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Recent Examples of word for word
The fictional married couple indeed got the crowd laughing as Ferrell performed Lamar’s famous rap nearly word for word while Gasteyer sang its repeating four-note string hook opera-style.
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Indeed, for large swaths of the show, The Agency is even a beat-for-beat remake; an early sequence in which Martian runs a new employee through a quick trial at a café re-creates the same scene in the French series almost word for word.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
Co-writer John Lutz also shared that Sawyer dictated all the Japanese dialogue to the cast members, who then repeated it back word for word.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Allies of Ossoff said that this statement is not word for word but that Ossoff did iterate a similar message to Williams.
—Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Indeed, for large swaths of the show, The Agency is even a beat-for-beat remake; an early sequence in which Martian runs a new employee through a quick trial at a café re-creates the same scene in the French series almost word for word.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
Co-writer John Lutz also shared that Sawyer dictated all the Japanese dialogue to the cast members, who then repeated it back word for word.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
Allies of Ossoff said that this statement is not word for word but that Ossoff did iterate a similar message to Williams.
—Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 24 Dec. 2024
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Once again, the comedian has mastered the beauty of standing directly in his truth.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
23 May 2025
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Customers can collaborate directly with the milliners to design a personalized accessory.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
23 May 2025
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Japan’s Cabinet Office took to X earlier this month to explain that modern technology has yet to be able to accurately predict an earthquake.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 May 2025
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The new study was finally able to precisely assess the magnitude of that solar storm and date it more accurately.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
19 May 2025
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