hard copy

Example Sentences

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People must mail a hard copy to the IRS service center where they would file their current-year return, Collins wrote.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

A hard copy is available for $50, but don’t bother—its “reference scenario” is already stale.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

A spokesperson said each item was being taken to a warehouse in a secret location to be individually photographed, so that both a digital book and hard copy could be given to the Osbourne family.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2025

Meanwhile, the participants who held on to a hard copy of the insult experienced only a small decrease in their overall anger.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2024

Gene regulation—the turning on and off of genes by proteins—described the mechanism by which combinatorial complexity could be generated from the one hard copy of genetic information in a cell.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee