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"I earned my money word by word at a keyboard. But once it went south, it was as if none of that mattered. People treated me like I'd made money without ever working for it."

From BBC • Jun. 29, 2025

In a demonstration of the site, bard.google.com, to Reuters, Krawczyk showed how the program produces blocks of text in an instant, different from how ChatGPT types out answers word by word.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2023

Some nights I still wake up, my heart banging, remembering a graduate school professor who relentlessly corrected my Midwestern twang, word by word: Whan.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023

To make the most of her public appearances, she practices speaking, word by word by word.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2023

He repeated the passage word by word, making her memorize it, whether or not she understood it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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