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[kop-ee] / ˈkɒp i /






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The print was discovered inside a 1980 copy of Hockney's Paper Pools, which had been donated over the counter to the Salvation Army shop in Goat Lane, Norwich, a year ago.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Marian images are common in viceregal art—the Virgin played an important role in converting peoples—and many simply copy traditional European depictions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“I’ve been playing that since my early 20s because I was obsessed with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez,” Price says, “and we got our hands on a copy of the ‘Rolling Thunder Revue.’

From Salon Jul. 14, 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

Now pick up a copy of that newspaper—but ignore the Mona Lisa on the front page.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

They weren’t 10 or 20 copies of the same magazine.

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

TikTok is full of videos of readers holding up their copies of the translation by University of Pennsylvania classicist Emily Wilson, which Nolan has referenced as a source.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Certainly many “Little House” fans cherish the novels’ central role in their childhood, too; the book series has sold more than 60 million copies since they were first published in the 1930s and ’40s.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

The track went on to become one of the defining singles of the 1990s, selling more than 8 million copies worldwide, and launching the band's Girl Power agenda.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

I’d loaned Rachel my copies of the books two years ago.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

The Belgian team copied Trump's unmistakable swaying fist pumps as they celebrated their 4-1 thrashing of the co-hosts on Monday, dancing and singing the song on the pitch and in the changing room.

From Barron's Jul. 7, 2026

He even had a model made of the Maison Carrée in Nîmes, the best preserved of Roman temples, and had it copied at the state capitol building in Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

The MCC has copied a technique of "steaming", which is used by the All England Lawn Tennis Club for the courts that host Wimbledon.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

In some cases, the DNA is copied successfully, but the cell never fully splits.

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

“Some of the biggest funds on the planet have picked my brain and copied my strategy,” he wrote in an e-mail.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

They did this by copying real scenarios people had posted in a popular Reddit forum, putting them into the AI models and then comparing the chatbot replies with the replies on Reddit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

Recalling that she grew up being warned away from copying off someone else’s test because “cheating is only cheating yourself,” she sounds glum.

From Salon Jun. 10, 2026

Microsoft says it built the model "from scratch" with "no distillation" of rival models -- a common shortcut that involves copying a competitor's outputs to train a new system more cheaply and quickly.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Her brother admitted he was simply copying Andrew Tate, says Alex.

From BBC May 27, 2026

But two or three years later, every other car maker didn’t suddenly start making cars that looked like the Edsel, the way everyone started copying the Aeron.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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