paste
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It means Dilworth at the Football Supporters Association is cautious about clubs simply seeking to "copy and paste from the men's game".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
“If I have leftover olives from making a bunch of martinis, I can crack open a can of tuna and some tomato paste and I’m halfway to a puttanesca. Very happy about that,” he says.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
You can either copy and paste that directly into a chat box or read it out over the phone to a representative.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
For $25, it tasted like tomato paste diluted in water.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
"It's our most traditional dish here in Pachuca. If you don't have much time, there's always a pastes store around the corner," Hernandez says.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
Mr. Blum said he uses ChatGPT and Claude in a limited way: He pastes in drafts with the prompt “edit for grammar, usage and clarity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
"Bookworm" is a cute thing to call a voracious reader, but actual bookworms -- as well as microorganisms and time -- break down the flour pastes commonly used to keep old publications in one piece.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
He pastes the stupid half smile back on his stupid face.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
At an army base in the Nepali town of Bidur, a key rescue hub, relatives crowded around lists of rescued people pasted on a wall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
On Monday at the Nottingham Inquiry, mental health nurse Busayo Ajewole admitted her notes were at times lacking information, copied and pasted and fundamentally wrong.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
We carried the empty paper bag home with us on the plane, taking care not to rip it, and then pasted it into in our scrapbook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
She stepped into the bathroom, rubbed some adhesive across her face, pasted on the fake beard, and colored her hair with gray paint she had bought at a costume shop.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
Oh, how I wish that someone had pasted glow-in-the-dark stars on our windshield!
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
A pasting at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain might have coloured their last European campaign but Inter got to that final by seeing off Bayern Munich and Barcelona in epic knockout ties.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
While pasting the new “Virgencita” poster, she notices an older one of hers to the left — a portrait of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — hanging half ripped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
The U.S. botched copying and pasting a relatively straightforward warship already in service in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
In Rome they romped to a 4-0 lead on the first morning by delivering an alternate shot pasting that the US never recovered from.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
Back at the camp, the girls rushed around, pasting sequins on their faces, sewing palm fronds into gowns like plumage, making last- minute touch-ups.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
