Examples of word-for-word in a Sentence
Adverb
you don't have to record the professor's comments word for word in your notes
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Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Seth Rogen said pretty much word-for-word the exact same thing, and no one said a thing.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Shivani Vora, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Tom Petty sang this one, word for word, while Jim shook a tam- bourine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Clooney and Heslov’s play is an almost word-for-word duplicate of its big-screen predecessor, with little interest in probing Murrow’s interior life or deepening the relationships between characters.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Seth Rogen said pretty much word-for-word the exact same thing, and no one said a thing.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Adverb
Distilled down, but the essence of the work and many passages from Melville are word for word in the opera.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Tom Petty sang this one, word for word, while Jim shook a tam- bourine.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025
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“Word-for-word.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word-for-word. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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