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That doesn’t mean your private chats about your colleague or spouse are going to show up word for word in someone else’s chat session a year or two from now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
They point to the statement given by a different man which they say is "almost identical, word for word" to the statement given by Kanwaljit Singh.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025
At points, she repeated lines almost word for word: “When we organize, mountains move,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
He typed it out word for word, essentially adopting Watters’ statement.”
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2024
He read the letter through, word for word, and while he read, there wasn’t a sound in the cabin beyond the slight rustle of the page in the shaking hand that held it.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
