copy
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If brand copy should be taken with a gallon of Morton, Elsesser’s duality is unmistakable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
BBC West Investigations has obtained a copy of the notes from Scatchard's parole hearing.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
On a cold November morning, designer Isaac Mizrahi gets up, leaves his apartment, and trudges to the corner newsstand to pick up a copy of Women’s Wear Daily.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
That finding helps explain why the enzyme can accurately copy information written using an expanded genetic alphabet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Morning, ladies,” he said, looking up from his copy of the Weekly Wave.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
Instead, it sold out all 300,000 copies of its first stand-alone issue, in July 1972, in just eight days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Earlier work by Dr. Polleux showed that human-specific copies of SRGAP2 increase the number of synapses, or connections, made by neurons while also causing those synapses to mature very slowly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
She has been called the “human printer” because she follows Trump with a portable printer to provide Trump with hard copies of flattering news coverage or information the computer-averse president requires.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The programme also helps promote authors like herself; because of the selection, it "means 14,000 copies of my book have been sent to children in the UK".
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Everyone agreed that the reporter’s saying bad things about their school in order to sell more copies of the Cucaracha Voice was mean, unfair, and just plain sneaky.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
In July, a US judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and several authors who claimed the San Francisco company illegally copied their work to train its AI model, Claude.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
However, she became distressed when her ideas were copied by or "inspired" her male contemporaries – including Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Lucas Samaras – whose works would be displayed at more prestigious galleries.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
He went straight to his bathroom mirror and copied them down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Why should 15 people be copied in an email?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
That she wanted to name her baby boy after the poet she copied in her letters.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Generative AI relies on underlying patterns from existing data to predict and produce new outputs, rather than just copying or sorting existing information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Much of this is already happening, with biotechs going dark to keep rivals in China from copying their work and racing it into human trials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In 1506, he asked the Venetian government to stop the Italian engraver Marcantonio Raimondi from copying his woodcuts.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Despite a lack of formal education, Kusman began copying the inscriptions found during excavations carried out in eastern Turkey, Iran and Armenia, over which Urartu once stretched.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Suddenly I was unsure that I was up to the task of copying a whole play.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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