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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

Predock had a photocopy of the bill in his pocket — always ready to unfold it and strike up a conversation about the importance of Desmond and the museum project.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

Ellsberg asked his son if he’d like to help photocopy the Pentagon Papers.

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

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

I find prenatal vitamin recommendations, sonograms, and photocopies of each visit to the doctor.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

She had photocopied the form four times, clipped everything together and tucked it into a large FedEx envelope, along with referrals, letters and a chronology of her husband’s sickness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 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

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

"It was as if someone had followed me around for a year, stealing my jokes, copying my mannerisms, photocopying my world-weary yet witty view of life…" he wrote.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

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

From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023

I was answering phones, photocopying, distributing newsletters on the street.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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