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Contraposition Posted 14 years ago
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tally with : verbatim?

Does 'tally with' mean being verbatim?

Her report of what happened tallied exactly with the story of another witness.
  

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contraposition Does 'tally with' mean being verbatim? Not really. No.

  • contraposition Does 'tally with' mean being verbatim?
  • Not really.
  • No.
  • tallied = corresponded The correspondence between the two reports need not be the same word for word, which is what 'verbatim' means.
  • CJ
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contrapositionDoes 'tally with' mean being verbatim?
Not really. No.

tallied = corresponded

The correspondence between the two reports need not be the same word for word, which is what 'verbatim' means.

CJ

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