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
  • Co-producer Jacob Tell says that the upcoming concert and auction will directly support music industry workers affected by the Los Angeles wildfires with grants for housing, medical bills, groceries and other living essentials.
    Andrea Zarczynski, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The oil and gas industry alone directly and indirectly supports 1.4 million Texas jobs.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Adverb
  • Given everything that transpired on Friday, or given the lack of anything to put it more accurately, Vancouver’s trade deadline paralysis on Friday served to turn up the pressure on the organization down the stretch.
    Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Less information is available about them online, so AI systems may have less data to represent them accurately to recruiters.
    David Paffenholz, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • The fictional married couple indeed got the crowd laughing as Ferrell performed Lamar’s famous rap nearly word for word while Gasteyer sang its repeating four-note string hook opera-style.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Indeed, for large swaths of the show, The Agency is even a beat-for-beat remake; an early sequence in which Martian runs a new employee through a quick trial at a café re-creates the same scene in the French series almost word for word.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Ad verbum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ad%20verbum. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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