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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

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

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

I stood staring for a long moment, stunned and overwhelmed, then said maybe we could sort through it together, then I could find somewhere to photocopy what I’d need.

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

A few days later, a heavy bundle of A4 papers arrived: handwritten notes, photocopies of old documents, press clippings from the Kent Messenger newspaper.

From BBC May 18, 2024

A week earlier she’d made photocopies of the first chapter, a short story Ralph Ellison published as “Battle Royal.”

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

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

He had photocopied documents and returned the originals.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2024

The worktable was piled with photocopied blueprints from On Spheres, the forgotten Archimedes text Leo had liberated from an underground workshop in Rome.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

I was thinking of photocopying and mass producing — maybe these little houses are mass producing and you lose intimacy or a uniqueness.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2023

The two have said they met in 1998 while waiting for rationed photocopying machine time.

From Reuters Oct. 2, 2023

I’d done some research on multiple sclerosis in the Princeton library, photocopying medical journal articles to send to my parents.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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