verbatim
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The devotion is well-earned: Smith can quote Jefferson verbatim and cites Seneca and Enlightenment philosophers without blinking.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Alongside each photograph she includes verbatim excerpts of hourslong interviews that, she writes, “gave voice to one of the many stories I heard.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
"The actual malice here is the knowing dissemination of something that was purported to be verbatim, but which is not," said Mr Neuborne, the former national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025
Hill Valley Mayor Red Thomas blares the same verbatim reelection slogan in 1955 as Mayor Goldie Wilson does in 1985 — “Progress is his middle name” — yet the town is in visible decline.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
“First I heard about it was, she had that cancer,” he said, repeating the story he’d told dozens of reporters over the years, almost verbatim.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Vocabulary lists containing verbatim
Foreign Words and Phrases Commonly Used in English, List 1
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "V"
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