copy
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The studio was responding to a post on X that shared a high-quality copy of the Christopher Nolan film.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
“Requiring this of Lineage could add several months to the removal effort, during which time-period odors will likely persist,” according to the letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Part of a 1,700-year-old copy of Homer's poem, kept at Manchester's John Rylands Library, was taken to New York in a bespoke case for the viewing.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The method is widely used across the industry, but US officials say Chinese firms have deployed it at scale to illicitly copy proprietary American systems.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
A gifted forger can copy a painting, but he cannot copy a craquelure.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Roberto Velasco, 84, brought a small suitcase and a hard disc containing copies of old family letters and keepsakes from his family in Chile over the 50 years he has spent in Spain.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The company said the game, “Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced,” had already sold 3.5 million copies, exceeding annual expectations in just 14 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Anthropic also purchased millions of print copies in bulk, stripped the books’ bindings and made scanned digital copies that were used to train Claude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Almost 8,000 print copies of The Odyssey were sold in the UK last week, taking the total so far this year to 47,000.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He figured this was his chance to make his own set of copies of the Pentagon Papers.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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It is hard to see how any AI model will produce sustained outperformance, because it will simply be copied.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The Belgian team copied Trump's unmistakable swaying fist pumps as they celebrated their 4-1 thrashing of the co-hosts on Monday, dancing and singing the song on the pitch and in the changing room.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
That “was an important contribution,” Hayes-Bautista said, and it was in striking contrast to the English law that original American laws had copied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
He even had a model made of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes, the best preserved of Roman temples, and had it copied at the state capitol building in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
She copied him without even thinking about it and felt instantly slightly calmer.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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GLP-1 helps regulate hunger and blood sugar, and semaglutide works by copying its effects in the body.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
What AI does with words it devours is different from just copying and regurgitating the content verbatim, so many people consider it fair use.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Scammers exploit the Emirati royal's likeness by drawing on his vast online presence, including his more than 17 million Instagram followers, and sometimes even copying the prince's authentic poems to deceive victims.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
They did this by copying real scenarios people had posted in a popular Reddit forum, putting them into the AI models and then comparing the chatbot replies with the replies on Reddit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Two more men entered, and I began to transcribe: It was obvious at once that this would be no leisurely task, as copying those sermons back in Yorkshire had been.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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