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[kop-ee] / ˈkɒp i /






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I’ve been momentarily halted by that title each time I’ve picked up my tattered $5 thrift-store copy over the last few weeks.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

Were either car to come to market, the difference between the official Hippie Car and its copy could be tens of millions of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

"People are really enthusiastic; we've had emails saying, 'can you put a copy aside for me?', and last night we had people asking to put it on pre-order."

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

“You’ve seen other states copy that approach since,” Longe said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Isaac also remembered what he called Jefferson’s “copyin’ machine,” or polygraph, which could automatically produce an exact copy of what Jefferson wrote with his own pen.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

You can take either of those hard copies to the vote center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

Rooney's novels have sold millions of copies internationally, gaining a cult following for their observations of modern relationships before the BBC television adaptation of "Normal People" brought her wider fame.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Although this sacrifice kills the individual cell, it prevents the virus from producing more copies and infecting nearby bacteria, helping protect the larger colony.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Most drugs like Keytruda, which cost more than $200,000 a year for the average patient, will have far cheaper copies when its patents expire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Dad had taken me to the library in the morning to use the copier, and we’d had two hundred fifty copies made.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Apollo started out as a private-equity fund manager, then launched credit funds that traded public debt before using its internal insurer Athene to turbocharge its private-credit operations, a strategy that many competitors have since copied.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Anthropic stored Elvis’ songs “into a permanent, general-purpose central library intended to be retained indefinitely, from which subsets were selected and copied again to train the next generation of Claude models,” the lawsuit contends.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 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

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Bubber stood beside her and copied every move she made.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The peptide activated distinct neuronal and metabolic pathways rather than simply copying the effects of GLP-1.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Highlighting worries about the technology, Smith pointed to a recent Anthropic report suggesting small AI models may be only months away from behaving like computer worms, copying themselves from one internet-connected device to the next.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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

Stewart “concluded that the works contain substantial similarities in protectable musical expression, including repeated copying of the distinctively protectable melody,” the complaint alleges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

But two or three years later, every other car maker didn’t suddenly start making cars that looked like the Edsel, the way everyone started copying the Aeron.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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