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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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They have to rely on patients to recount their medical histories or wait hours or even days for another clinician to send a DVD, a fax — or a photocopy.

From MarketWatch ● May 4, 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

And against the back wall, on top of a supply cabinet, sat a photocopy of the picture of Henrietta Lacks, hands on hips, in a pale wood frame several inches too big.

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

She includes photocopies of typewritten manuscript pages, heavy with margin notes and marked-through lines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

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

A few days later, a heavy bundle of A4 papers arrived: handwritten notes, photocopies of old documents, press clippings from the Kent Messenger newspaper.

From BBC ● May 18, 2024

It would take time to make photocopies, and the work obviously couldn’t be done in a public copy shop.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

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

She had photocopied the form four times, clipped everything together and tucked it into a large FedEx envelope, along with referrals, letters and a chronology of her husband’s sickness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

The next morning, a man came to our door with a photocopied letter.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

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

"It was as if someone had followed me around for a year, stealing my jokes, copying my mannerisms, photocopying my world-weary yet witty view of life…" he wrote.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

I was answering phones, photocopying, distributing newsletters on the street.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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