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Example Sentences
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That doesn’t mean your private chats about your colleague or spouse are going to show up word for word in someone else’s chat session a year or two from now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
They point to the statement given by a different man which they say is "almost identical, word for word" to the statement given by Kanwaljit Singh.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025
The real opera sets Pushkin’s play, which was written as a response to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” word for word.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024
That’s her line, word for word that comes from the archives,” Glazer says of the sub-camp where prisoners were forced to farm.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023
I could sing Nelly and Kelly Rowland’s “Dilemma” word for word, but I had no idea what the words meant.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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