as in directly
in the same words
an ad verbum translation if the giver of the oath mangles the wording, should one repeat after him ad verbum?
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Adverb
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Diller now has the business leaders reporting directly to him.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2025 -
Tulcea sits directly across the border from Izmail, which Russia has repeatedly attacked.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Jake Locker, drafted by Mike Reinfeldt in 2011, couldn’t stay healthy or throw accurately.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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But the full implications of those cuts for the nation’s ability to accurately interpret dynamic changes in the planet’s weather and to predict long-term warming scenarios through its modeling arm in Princeton have not.—
Abrahm Lustgarten,
ProPublica,
24 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Some weeks later, Fonda would repeat these assertions, word for word, at a press conference at the Lima airport, as the commission arrived in Peru to begin its investigation.—
Wade Davis,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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Distilled down, but the essence of the work and many passages from Melville are word for word in the opera.—
Shivani Vora,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Ad verbum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ad%20verbum. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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