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[kop-ee] / ˈkɒp i /






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But many of the features that made them distinctive, including grog tempering, coiled construction and carefully standardized clay preparation, were hidden inside the finished pottery and therefore difficult to copy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

In one assignment to test students' ability to evaluate scientific arguments, Paustian, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's bacteriology department, was suspicious that they might simply copy the instructions into a chatbot.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

One reason is that competing labs can copy, or “distill,” an AI model if they can get access to these tokens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Olah was disturbed after reading a copy of “Magnifica humanitas” and suggested pulling Anthropic out of the event, although he ultimately attended.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Rio pulled out a copy of The Official C.I.A.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

The lawsuit is believed to be the country's first seeking to defend an individual's vocal identity against AI-generated copies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The first 2,500 copies of the Americana Edition—with properties named after U.S. landmarks—hit shelves in June, in time for the nation’s 250th anniversary but four months later than expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Packard-Grams has long been fascinated by the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, and by the countless works of literature, philosophy, and science that disappeared before scribes could make surviving copies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

A reporter reviewed copies of safety notices required by federal law that detail the hazardous chemicals that were mixed into the pesticide load that sprayed Lopez.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Daddy is bringing you copies this morning, so I am sending this note over with him before I go off to school.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

It did not, however, eliminate the possibility that Tampa Bay potters had copied northern designs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Lucas Rhoa of Orange Lutheran needs to be observed and copied the way he is using his size, strength and agility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

About four years after the iPhone launched in 2007, Apple sued Samsung, alleging the Korean company copied the look, product design, packaging and user interface of the iPhone and iPad, violating its patents and trademarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

In July, a US judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and several authors who claimed the San Francisco company illegally copied their work to train its AI model, Claude.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

If a single letter or digit was copied out wrong, it could waste hours of everyone’s time.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

British pop star Olivia Dean has been accused of copying the melody of Bill Withers' soul classic Just The Two of Us in a legal case filed in California.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“We can’t just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers,” he told CBS News.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Soon after the plane diagram was couriered to Paddington Green, all Bayoumi's videos, including the footage of the paintballing, were taken from Birmingham to New Scotland Yard for copying.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Generative AI relies on underlying patterns from existing data to predict and produce new outputs, rather than just copying or sorting existing information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Every now and again, there was a passage of much talk and little action, and then I came to myself and began copying feverishly.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood




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