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[kop-ee] / ˈkɒp i /






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We had only one battered paperback copy of “Brown Face, Big Master,” and though the book was secreted away, I found it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Approximately one in five people carries at least one copy of this gene variant.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Kleger-Heine reiterated the employees’ concerns a couple of weeks later in a complaint to the charities division of the California attorney general’s office, a copy of which she shared with The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Details of what the responses would involve were redacted in the copy of the report shown to the inquiry.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The computer needed permission to copy a hidden file.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

“I think it’s easy to believe that reviews don’t matter,” James says while signing 300 copies in a tiny back room at Powell’s before his talk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In most coral species, individual animals reproduce by creating genetically identical copies of themselves.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Nintendo is clearly aiming first at fans who grew up with the game, which sold millions of copies worldwide.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Ebook editions have already been removed from sale in the UK, although many book shops still have existing stock of physical copies.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

All three had been in the pack Babulya had fled Sarkel with, along with the Torah scroll: two different copies of the Talmud, and a geography book.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

McCotter copied on the letters First Assistant U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

These real-money portfolios — tracked via public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosures and linked accounts — can be copied for a $9.99 monthly subscription fee.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“They would be willing to set the precedent for an alignment test that would be applied to the U.S. and would therefore be copied elsewhere,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

It did not, however, eliminate the possibility that Tampa Bay potters had copied northern designs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

I used colored pencils and copied the picture off a cheap hologram bookmark.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

Small artificial intelligence models may be only months away from being able to behave like a computer worm, copying themselves from one internet-connected gadget to the next without human help, AI giant Anthropic said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

But in the 1800s, no one could make a YouTube video accusing another creator of copying their slipper pattern, or debate English vs.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

The complaint takes issue with the song’s “repeated copying of the distinctively protectable melody” and alleges the musicians “clearly infringed” on the copyrights related to Withers’ Grammy-winning song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

He concluded "that the works contain substantial similarities" including the "repeated copying" of the melody from Just The Two of Us, the documents said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

What was new was not the practice of copying others but the idea that this was something to be ashamed of.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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