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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 then-Labour leader Ed Miliband was reading a photocopy of the front page as Osborne spoke and said the chancellor "almost need not have bothered coming" to the Commons.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 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

I sit up, pulling down the photocopy and replacing it with the framed, one-of-a-kind original.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

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

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

Later I would make three photocopies, one to reside permanently next to my body, in my wallet, as a kind of personal asterisk, I thought, in case of accidental death.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The bank photocopied the check so I read it.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

I didn’t give the building a second thought until my best friend and I started a little weekly newspaper we photocopied for 3½ cents a copy from a shop a few doors away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

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

It included on its cover a photocopied image of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who is worshipped by most Rastafari.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Sweating, I flip the page and see “ELLIOTT, Scene 1” scrawled in photocopied Magic Marker.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

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

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

John Visentin, the chief executive of Xerox who led the photocopying and technology company through a tumultuous pandemic at a time when demand for printed documents and ink waned, died on Tuesday.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

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

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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