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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Selina Guevara, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2025
Its text is nearly a word-for-word match of the text in the Feb. 3 Facebook post.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Indeed, for large swaths of the show, The Agency is even a beat-for-beat remake; an early sequence in which Martian runs a new employee through a quick trial at a café re-creates the same scene in the French series almost word for word.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
Prosecutors in turn said Lenard was trying to use the language barrier to confuse Shaheen and ask her about word-for-word statements.
—Selina Guevara, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2025
Its text is nearly a word-for-word match of the text in the Feb. 3 Facebook post.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
Adverb
The fictional married couple indeed got the crowd laughing as Ferrell performed Lamar’s famous rap nearly word for word while Gasteyer sang its repeating four-note string hook opera-style.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Indeed, for large swaths of the show, The Agency is even a beat-for-beat remake; an early sequence in which Martian runs a new employee through a quick trial at a café re-creates the same scene in the French series almost word for word.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Word-for-word.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word-for-word. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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