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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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You can do so by identifying the official class-action settlement administrator from the photocopy of the check.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 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

Items should include a flashlight, radio, water, non-perishable foods, warm clothing and a photocopy of all important documents, it says.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026

The 17th Mickey is a flesh photocopy of Mickey Barnes, a good-for-nothing dope desperate to flee Earth after his macaron business flops and its main investor threatens him with a chain saw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

But the photocopy machine was broken, so the woman behind the desk told Deborah and Cofield they’d have to come back later, once the machine was fixed.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

By Smithsonian magazine’s tally, Americans got by with a mere 20 million photocopies a year in the late 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025

They often have to submit copies of their diplomas, typically as photocopies by mail.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

A week earlier she’d made photocopies of the first chapter, a short story Ralph Ellison published as “Battle Royal.”

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

The bank photocopied the check so I read it.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

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

But Mr Auerbach claims Mr Lehrmann turned up to Seven's offices with a massive binder of documents and photocopied more than 500 pages of evidence for the Spotlight episode.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2024

In 1994, Eric Nakamura launched a zine he dubbed Giant Robot, a photocopied, hand-stapled fanboy’s ode to manga, anime, Japanese punk bands and skateboarding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

Not a copy of the flyer, but the original he’d photocopied in the library.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

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

A big chunk of that archive is composed of the so-called “Coffin series” — Xerox books begun in 1966, in which Smith experimented with photocopying photographs, ordinary household objects and fragments of her own body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Local Mexican media have identified the Mexican woman who was killed as Areli Pablo Servando, a 33-year-old who worked in a business that offers photocopying services.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 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

In Kinko’s, Wednesday set about photocopying the deposit slips from the bank.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman


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