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She told the High Court she knew "100%" that other stories had been obtained through hacking because they matched her voicemails "word for word".
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026
That doesn’t mean your private chats about your colleague or spouse are going to show up word for word in someone else’s chat session a year or two from now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The title came to her first — “At the Beach, in Every Life” — and the song poured out of her, nearly word for word.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2025
The language about the dearth of mental health facilities in Appalachia in a 1988 monograph is nearly word for word identical to quotes from articles published in 2017.
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2024
"You wrote out those lines as quickly as Sander said them. A trick like that could be really useful. Why, you could copy down the plays of the Lord Admiral's men, word for word!"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
