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Viewers may scan a QR code for their own copy of the audio track, which deteriorates in sound quality with every download.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Ownership of a copy became shorthand for edgy, intellectual sensitivity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Galperin said she has seen how creators of stalkerware have resisted changing their product function in favor of rewriting ad copy to say their software is meant for parents, employees or “building trust in relationships.”
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
The findings offer a new way to think about a long-standing question in genetics: why losing one copy of certain genes, a condition called haploinsufficiency, can cause severe problems during development.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
He shouldered it off and retrieved the glowing copy of The Way to Rio Luna.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
She handed out copies of her longtime friend Madonna’s new album to the studio audience, told stories about ordinary life and looked completely at home.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Now, the novel has sold more than 450,000 copies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Davis has since distanced himself from the memoir, saying he didn't write all of it and that parts were fictionalised to sell more copies.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
In some cases, a child has only one working copy of TBX5 rather than two healthy copies inherited from the parents.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Most of the staff from room 1106 in the New York Hilton went to the Times building to watch the first copies roll off the press.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Why should 15 people be copied in an email?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A judge has ordered all videos featuring popular animated character Wolfoo to be removed from platforms including YouTube after ruling that the cartoon illegally copied audio from Peppa Pig.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
In addition, certain genetic backgrounds showed a striking tendency toward whole-genome duplication, an event in which the complete set of chromosomes is copied.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
It is hard to see how any AI model will produce sustained outperformance, because it will simply be copied.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
And nothing was more galling to my uncle than finding me outside, sitting cross-legged on a grass mat, studying and writing my letters, which I copied from the Qur’an.
From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince
“I was copying and pasting from ChatGPT,” said Vo, who lives in San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
"That copying was extensive, seemingly endemic at least so far as the English language Wolfoo videos are concerned."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
GLP-1 helps regulate hunger and blood sugar, and semaglutide works by copying its effects in the body.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
In U.S. copyright law, the benchmark for using a copyrighted work without permission is to examine whether it is transformative, adding significant extra value to the output, rather than merely copying the work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
She had once started copying the book in a two-cent notebook.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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