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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

Predock had a photocopy of the bill in his pocket — always ready to unfold it and strike up a conversation about the importance of Desmond and the museum project.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2024

If you don’t have an altar, you can make the card the picture on your phone’s home screen or tape a photocopy of it on your nightstand.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2024

Then she put the forms and the photocopy in a manila envelope addressed to the agency and mailed them off, fully expecting to hear nothing for weeks or months, or possibly ever.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

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

I paid for some photocopies of documents which I arranged into orderly piles for my own archives.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

The bank photocopied the check so I read it.

From MarketWatch Apr. 27, 2026

I didn’t give the building a second thought until my best friend and I started a little weekly newspaper we photocopied for 3½ cents a copy from a shop a few doors away.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

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

In fact he was so worried about the "bizarre" prescriptions he was being handed by patients he photocopied 250 of the most suspicious.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2025

They all show a rectangular outline near the edge of the page, like letters have been covered up before being photocopied.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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

I was thinking of photocopying and mass producing — maybe these little houses are mass producing and you lose intimacy or a uniqueness.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2023

The two have said they met in 1998 while waiting for rationed photocopying machine time.

From Reuters Oct. 2, 2023

During that battle, one of the brawlers is clad à la Uma Thurman in a white button-down, black slacks and black bangs — Manzoor’s bring-it-on taunt to audiences who might say she’s photocopying Quentin Tarantino.

From New York Times Apr. 27, 2023

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

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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