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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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You can do so by identifying the official class-action settlement administrator from the photocopy of the check.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 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

Training on AI-generated data is “like what happens when you photocopy a piece of paper and then you photocopy the photocopy. You lose some of the information,” Papernot said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

“Here you go, hon. This’ll give you a good introduction to Wick’s work. Thing is, you gotta photocopy ’em.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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

One aggravating visual tic is that most of the male characters are photocopies of each other, a stack of handsome men with sandy brown goatees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

It would take time to make photocopies, and the work obviously couldn’t be done in a public copy shop.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

He had photocopied documents and returned the originals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024

But Mr Auerbach claims Mr Lehrmann turned up to Seven's offices with a massive binder of documents and photocopied more than 500 pages of evidence for the Spotlight episode.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

They all show a rectangular outline near the edge of the page, like letters have been covered up before being photocopied.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

A big chunk of that archive is composed of the so-called “Coffin series” — Xerox books begun in 1966, in which Smith experimented with photocopying photographs, ordinary household objects and fragments of her own body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Shops that provide photocopying services have been told to deny service to petitioners, who tend to gather in Beijing when it holds important meetings.

From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2022

Prominent leak cases involving the act include that of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers by photocopying the secret history of the Vietnam War and giving it to The New York Times.

From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022

In Kinko’s, Wednesday set about photocopying the deposit slips from the bank.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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