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It is also true that even as she was making her name as a journalist, she turned in lackluster copy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Federal agents in windbreakers seized his laptop and ordered the company’s IT staff to copy the company’s internal servers.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Officials at NUH said the latest error occurred while a copy of a radiotherapy database was being created.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Email the video to yourself so you have a copy later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“One of our several talents is that we can copy the Princess’s handwriting,” she said.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Rather than simply carrying extra copies of the same genes, the plants gradually transformed those duplicated genomes into something different.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Thanks to smart reinventions and remakes, the series has managed to stay relevant, selling a total of 213 million copies since its debut.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“It was beginning to sell more than 1,000 copies a week, which is crazy two years after publication,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
She asked to receive copies of communications between reporters and university employees pertaining to herself and to Belichick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
In comparison, the first runs of popular books in the 1850s, The Scarlet Letter or Moby-Dick for example, were less than 3,000 copies.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Lucas Rhoa of Orange Lutheran needs to be observed and copied the way he is using his size, strength and agility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
And in these creations we find a wealth of details, impressive from both a technical standpoint in their fealty to the garments being copied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Ian Robertson, former director at BMW, told the BBC's Today programme that JLR should have copied its rivals and started manufacturing in the US.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
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
“Here, I copied down a bunch of the ridiculous talking points from the NRA website last night at home. You can copy them into your notebook unless you already have them memorized.”
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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Spain's particular style will test England again this weekend, and the Wembley hosts will look to find a response - but perhaps not by copying their opponents.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Chinese companies haven’t denied that they engage in distillation, but earlier this year, a Moonshot executive told local media that the company’s Kim K3 achieved “breakthrough performance” due to fundamental innovations, not distillation or copying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
Dürer was only partly successful: It was decided that Raimondi could continue copying Dürer’s work, but he was prohibited from also copying the artist’s distinctive monogram.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
An enzyme was likely dedicated to copying DNA—a replicator protein.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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