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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
“We didn’t give him a copy of the chip. They were done aftermarket by us, by our proxies.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
“I’d like to work for the newspaper. I’ll write copy or deliver the papers to classes or clean the newsroom or change ink cartridges in the printers. I have some writing samples here for you.”
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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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
Where many literary novels from small presses sell fewer than 2,500 copies, “A Certain Hunger” has sold close to 200,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
So the Zimbabwean author found her own editor, typesetter and artist, and in 2012 published 500 copies herself.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
The Four Continents stocked a small but potent collection of chess books, as well as the latest copies of Shakhmatny Bulletin, a newly launched Russian-language periodical.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Terah Lynn, a 37-year-old manufacturing supervisor in Nashville, helped spark the meme with posts on her @TerahBuilds Instagram and TikTok accounts that went viral and were soon copied.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
He highlighted that plagiarism detection software had found several tracts of Arday's PhD dissertation to be copied verbatim or lightly rephrased from prior academic works by other authors.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 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
Below the Wrights’ address she’d copied another: Anita Rees, the Rees Gallery.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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"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
A top White House official on Wednesday accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of covertly copying Anthropic's most advanced model to build its Kimi K3.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
“All right, Ju-bi-lee,” Wynn said, copying me, and I felt my eyes roll clear to my forehead.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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