AD VERBUM Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

ad verbum

adverb

(ˌ)ad-ˈvər-bəm

Definition of ad verbum

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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The story’s main conceit was that scientists discover an Earth-like planet directly opposite our own in the same orbit around the sun, always hidden from our vantage point.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026
Trump posted a video Thursday night that directly called El-Sayed a member of the group, which was founded in Egypt; his administration has designated chapters as terrorist organizations.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of directly

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Now on their fifth release, All Inside Aquarium, the band has moved beyond—or maybe more accurately, before—all this for an album that (mostly) sounds like it could’ve been released in 1991.

— Brendan Hay, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Regardless of these details, the results rather accurately reproduced the chaos in the brain so many researchers claimed psychedelics caused.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of accurately

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Translating the existing screenshots word for word would have been the fast path, but the team instead brought in a local culture expert to help rethink the visuals from the ground up, not just the language layered on top of them.

— Gilad Bechar, Forbes.com, 22 Sep. 2026
That evening, during the prime-time news on Channel 12, a military reporter named Nir Dvori relayed the story nearly word for word.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

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