phonetically

Adverb

Meaning

In a phonetic manner.

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Examples

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything. Regina Spektor

She probably used proxies and a cleaner-upper online too, because there was bugger-all of interest in her cache.” "You have no idea what you're saying, do you, boss?” "None at all. I had the techies write it all out phonetically for me. China Miéville

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point. Richelle Mead

To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt. Tom Robbins

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it. Demian Bichir

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director. Antonio Banderas

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