- present participle of copy.
copying
Example Sentences
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He had become notorious for an uncanny impersonation of Patrick Mahomes—wearing the three-time Super Bowl winner’s number, copying his haircut, and mirroring his sidearm throws—but he couldn’t match his ability to win football games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
“We can’t just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers,” he told CBS News.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Soon after the plane diagram was couriered to Paddington Green, all Bayoumi's videos, including the footage of the paintballing, were taken from Birmingham to New Scotland Yard for copying.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 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
Well, I didn’t do that well at yeshiva, but copying the passages down in class felt kind of holy, the same kind of magic as the letters appearing on the press.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
