word for word
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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
She told the High Court she knew "100%" that other stories had been obtained through hacking because they matched her voicemails "word for word".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 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
The title came to her first — “At the Beach, in Every Life” — and the song poured out of her, nearly word for word.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
The speech received wide publicity in both the local and foreign press, and was printed, virtually word for word, in the Rand Daily Mail.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
