verbatim

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When it comes to public figures, there are clearly good reasons to stick pretty close to a verbatim transcript of what they really said.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 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

Robert Strassler’s “Landmark Thucydides” of 1996, which improves on Crawley where it can, repeats these words verbatim.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 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

I was taking it down verbatim on my pocket-recorder, trying not to show the knuckle-motions of my hand.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov