word by word
Example Sentences
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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
“It’s not a question of a concept being declassified, or boxes of documents. It’s a word by word determination,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
He repeated the passage word by word, making her memorize it, whether or not she understood it.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
