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photocopy

[foh-tuh-kop-ee] / ˈfoʊ təˌkɒp i /
NOUN
mechanical image produced from a copier; making the image
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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

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

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

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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