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Recent Examples of word for word
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.
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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
The responsibilities of a language translator go behind simply converting a written text, word for word, from one language to another.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
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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
The responsibilities of a language translator go behind simply converting a written text, word for word, from one language to another.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for word for word
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Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.—
Dustin Staggs,
Arkansas Online,
11 May 2025
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Proceeds from Purse Bingo directly benefit three charities that serve women and families in need: Alabaster Jar Project, Carol’s House of Community Resource Center, and Shades of Pink California.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 May 2025
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None of these sources accurately reflect the year 2025.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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But all of them fail because an examination of those statements in context confirms that a reasonable viewer would have understood the Fox News shows at issue to accurately convey what the President was claiming (and still claims) concerning the results of the 2020 Election.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
1 May 2025
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“Word for word.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/word%20for%20word. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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