photocopy
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They have to rely on patients to recount their medical histories or wait hours or even days for another clinician to send a DVD, a fax — or a photocopy.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
Down the sidewalk, I mailed packages for our boys at the pack-and-ship shop, and stopped to photocopy teaching materials for my weekly state-prison volunteering gig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Items should include a flashlight, radio, water, non-perishable foods, warm clothing and a photocopy of all important documents, it says.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
But toward the end, a federal immigration official she had met with said he needed Marques May to follow him so he could photocopy her passport, he recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
And against the back wall, on top of a supply cabinet, sat a photocopy of the picture of Henrietta Lacks, hands on hips, in a pale wood frame several inches too big.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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She includes photocopies of typewritten manuscript pages, heavy with margin notes and marked-through lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
A simple way to imagine this is like making two photocopies of a document but accidentally placing both copies into the same folder instead of separating them.
From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026
"They can't even afford to make photocopies, never mind plane tickets and lodgings," said lawyer Valeria Carreras, who represents 34 families of victims.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
They often have to submit copies of their diplomas, typically as photocopies by mail.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
A treasure trove of materials on cryptography, the library included both rare books and modern photocopies.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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The bank photocopied the check so I read it.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
The tendrils of the tightly strung material connect, both physically and metaphorically, the wartime experiences documented in the photocopied pages scattered about, but they also bring to mind out-of-control cell growth and cancerous disease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
In fact he was so worried about the "bizarre" prescriptions he was being handed by patients he photocopied 250 of the most suspicious.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
No one disputed that Ellsberg had taken the papers and photocopied them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
Sweating, I flip the page and see “ELLIOTT, Scene 1” scrawled in photocopied Magic Marker.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
After the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago was found guilty in 1984 of illegally photocopying the music of a religious composer, the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
In 2021, the SPS started photocopying mail being sent to inmates to try and close down this route.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
During that battle, one of the brawlers is clad à la Uma Thurman in a white button-down, black slacks and black bangs — Manzoor’s bring-it-on taunt to audiences who might say she’s photocopying Quentin Tarantino.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
I was answering phones, photocopying, distributing newsletters on the street.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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