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Translated word for word, they become something parseable only by a bilingual transportation engineer, not by the people the projects are supposed to serve.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
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
At points, she repeated lines almost word for word: “When we organize, mountains move,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
This time, he was accompanied by a Yiddish-speaking officer who translated him word for word, even the simple questions.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
