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word for word
adverb as in using exactly the same words
Example Sentences
The real opera sets Pushkin’s play, which was written as a response to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” word for word.
"I sat down for 12 hours in one day, learning it word for word, note for note," he says.
At points, she repeated lines almost word for word: “When we organize, mountains move,” she said.
The language about the dearth of mental health facilities in Appalachia in a 1988 monograph is nearly word for word identical to quotes from articles published in 2017.
It repeated, word for word, an article that had appeared a day before under a different byline on the website for RT, Russia’s global television network.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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