as in directly
in the same words
an ad verbum translation if the giver of the oath mangles the wording, should one repeat after him ad verbum?
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Adverb
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Is that aimed at competing directly with the likes of GPT-4 and Gemini?—
Ayesha Javed,
TIME,
16 Feb. 2025 -
Initially, some sellers shipped it directly to American buyers over the dark web.—
Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
16 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Just how high that bill will be and who bears the brunt of it is impossible to accurately predict for now, Justin Weidner, an economist at Deutsche Bank, said.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Under Buchanan’s leadership, community outreach intensified — and, the church’s makeup began to more accurately reflect the broader community.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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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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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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“Ad verbum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ad%20verbum. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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