photocopy
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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
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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
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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
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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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