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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
A Plaid MS, Carrie Harper, called it a "copy and paste opinion piece".
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
“If I have leftover olives from making a bunch of martinis, I can crack open a can of tuna and some tomato paste and I’m halfway to a puttanesca. Very happy about that,” he says.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 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
Poppy mixed some cornstarch and water into a gluey paste.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
"It's our most traditional dish here in Pachuca. If you don't have much time, there's always a pastes store around the corner," Hernandez says.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
I feel happy when Joy pastes a gold star in my notebook, although I think maybe part of the reason I am getting it is because Joy feels sorry for me.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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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
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
Meanwhile, the segment’s banner, pasted below both Conway and Watters, read, “Iconic hero movie to embrace pro-immigrant themes.”
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
There was a small, neat paper label pasted on the jar.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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“I was copying and pasting from ChatGPT,” said Vo, who lives in San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
A pasting at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain might have coloured their last European campaign but Inter got to that final by seeing off Bayern Munich and Barcelona in epic knockout ties.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
While pasting the new “Virgencita” poster, she notices an older one of hers to the left — a portrait of transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson — hanging half ripped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 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
He will stand at his desk folding and pasting and cutting until twelve o’clock at night.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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