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word for word

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1. word for word - Adjective

2. word for word - Adverb

3. word for word - Phrase

Meaning

using exactly the same words

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word-for-word

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he repeated her remarks verbatim Source: Internet

As Mormando further explains, we also know that in compiling his famous collection of artists' lives, Baldinucci routinely copied material, word for word, from texts supplied to him by family members and close friends and associates of his subjects. Source: Internet

He read an unabridged dictionary (the 13th edition of Webster's) through, word for word, studying not only the definitions of the words but also their derivations from ancient languages. Source: Internet

Eliot also borrowed, almost word for word and without his usual acknowledgement, a passage from Andrewes' 1622 Christmas Day sermon for the opening of his poem " Journey of the Magi ". Source: Internet

It is fruitless, however, to attempt to extrapolate concrete percentages of how much of The Kalevala is genuine word-for-word oral tradition and how much is fabricated by the compiler. Source: Internet

He had submitted a manuscript which was more-or-less word for word the same as a paper written by another author. Source: Internet

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