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It means Dilworth at the Football Supporters Association is cautious about clubs simply seeking to "copy and paste from the men's game".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The filling is the same: bright green pistachio butter mixed with tahini paste and toasted kataifi, or thin strands of shredded phyllo dough pastry.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
During our Zoom, with the background carefully faded behind her wavy blond bob, she promises that she doesn’t just copy and paste her subjects and settings from what sells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
You can either copy and paste that directly into a chat box or read it out over the phone to a representative.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
“Maybe one bag of cherry paste and one jar of raki.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
That includes fruits, vegetables, pastes, sauces and pre-made meals.
From Salon ● May 30, 2026
And Thomas just copies and pastes that stuff right into his dissent.
From Slate ● May 15, 2026
Mr. Blum said he uses ChatGPT and Claude in a limited way: He pastes in drafts with the prompt “edit for grammar, usage and clarity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
"George lies and pastes all kinds of things together that aren't true."
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
He also had many different ointments, lotions, syrups, and pastes all made out of onion juice and different parts of the onion plant.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
Alexandra Parfitt, 46, a biostatistician, was disappointed to discover her 9-year-old daughter had copied and pasted an internet description of a “Peanuts” cartoon character into a school presentation on Google Slides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
The report highlighted an example of a junior software engineer, Robin, who pasted thousands of lines of AI-generated code before going to bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
His argument ignores the point made by posters pasted all over Venice this week.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
She stepped into the bathroom, rubbed some adhesive across her face, pasted on the fake beard, and colored her hair with gray paint she had bought at a costume shop.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2025
Rondell smiled big and nodded his head some, and we all three of us kept walking along the wet sand, a half-moon pasted on the sky over us and shining in the black ocean.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
Canny readers, meanwhile, practiced scrapbooking—clipping and pasting newspaper articles for future reference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Workers at the Pyroshine factory were now busy pasting wolf-themed packaging onto boxes to be shipped to the United States.
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2025
There is hope in senior circles that the review, together with big infrastructure plans, can be used to create a summer of good news, after many months of taking a pasting.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
There’s no sense in copying a sentence from every paragraph and pasting them together at the end.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
