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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

The government says the new app will mean further education colleges no longer have to hire extra staff to photocopy results or chase missing paperwork from prospective students.

From BBC May 6, 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

At the post office Molly made a photocopy of the birth certificate, which Vivian has kept in a small box under her bed for all these years, with the original name— May—she gave her daughter.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

By Smithsonian magazine’s tally, Americans got by with a mere 20 million photocopies a year in the late 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15, 2025

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

Before Lurz left to make photocopies, with the bald man close behind, he handed me a stack of photos and documents to look at while he was gone.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

He took out the photocopied map and examined it.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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

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

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

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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