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Adverb
you don't have to record the professor's comments word for word in your notes
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Anna Tingley, Variety, 18 Jan. 2025
Moira repeats the instructions word-for-word to a frustrated David, who eventually leaves his mother to finish what is allegedly her recipe.
—Brendan Le, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
Co-writer John Lutz also shared that Sawyer dictated all the Japanese dialogue to the cast members, who then repeated it back word for word.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
The first step was my self-tape, and that was pretty word-for-word the ball game scene that’s in [the first episode].
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 18 Jan. 2025
Moira repeats the instructions word-for-word to a frustrated David, who eventually leaves his mother to finish what is allegedly her recipe.
—Brendan Le, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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
Co-writer John Lutz also shared that Sawyer dictated all the Japanese dialogue to the cast members, who then repeated it back word for word.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Word-for-word.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word-for-word. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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