verbatim

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The play, which includes verbatim quotes from Dahl’s writing and interviews, takes place in 1983, as Dahl prepares his latest book for publication.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

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

The poster’s copy, “Natasha Lyonne is Mama Poot,” is such a silly, objectively hilarious line of text that it’s already racking up swaths of likes just by people repeating it verbatim online.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 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