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
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
“We did everything from mimeograph to walk door to door,” Molina said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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
Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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