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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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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

Her Ylfa is a glamorous foodie — herself a photocopy of Tilda Swinton’s meat-loving tycoon in “Okja.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2025

Jean shoves a photocopy of an article from the Cook Islands News into my hand.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 2024

Composed primarily of diazotypes, an inexpensive kind of photocopy typically used for architectural and technical drawings, the large piece was exhibited in 1980 at the now-defunct Alternative Museum in downtown New York.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024

When a “translation request” was generated by a cell, a photocopy of the original was summoned from the vault of the nucleus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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