mimeograph
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Is it sort of like a mimeograph, where the more you copy it, the fuzzier the image gets?
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2025
Democrats were essentially broke ahead of the 1972 campaign and dependent on an old mimeograph machine.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2024
Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023
I enjoyed the July 19 “Doonesbury” on the subject of virtual diplomas — until I reached the last panel that called the diploma a mimeograph because it was purple.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2020
The author was Jo Ann Robinson, who had been up all night with two student assistants at Alabama State, feverishly running the flyers off on the college’s mimeograph machine and bundling them into packages.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
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