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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
Often, “Eddington” plays out so formally and predictably that it’s like watching someone write out the thing that’s making them anxious on paper, word for word.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 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
"I sat down for 12 hours in one day, learning it word for word, note for note," he says.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2024
I tried to find it so I could quote it word for word but Mum said it had probably been thrown out because our house is too small to hoard things.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
