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Recent Examples of word for word
Some weeks later, Fonda would repeat these assertions, word for word, at a press conference at the Lima airport, as the commission arrived in Peru to begin its investigation.
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Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Distilled down, but the essence of the work and many passages from Melville are word for word in the opera.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Tom Petty sang this one, word for word, while Jim shook a tam- bourine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
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.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
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Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Distilled down, but the essence of the work and many passages from Melville are word for word in the opera.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Tom Petty sang this one, word for word, while Jim shook a tam- bourine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
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.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
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Despite the first season’s open ending—in which protagonist Seong Gi-hun is about to board a plane but instead turns around and looks directly at the camera—Hwang says that it wasn’t done with a second season in mind.—
Regina Kim,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
28 June 2025
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But, O’Connor says, the more expensive dummy far more accurately reflects the anatomical differences between the sexes — including in the shape of the neck, collarbone, pelvis, and legs, which one NHTSA study found account for about 80% more injuries by women in a car crash compared to men.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
23 June 2025
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This means the study group was carefully filtered and may not accurately reflect the broader, more medically complex cancer patient population.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 June 2025
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