photocopy
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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
Jean shoves a photocopy of an article from the Cook Islands News into my hand.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2024
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
It was a photocopy of a handwritten note: IOU one Roman praetor.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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 treasure trove of materials on cryptography, the library included both rare books and modern photocopies.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
It included on its cover a photocopied image of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who is worshipped by most Rastafari.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
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
Hunkered over a Xerox machine at an ad agency above a flower shop on Melrose Avenue, Daniel Ellsberg began the laborious process of photocopying the smuggled documents that he hoped would end the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2024
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
The two have said they met in 1998 while waiting for rationed photocopying machine time.
From Reuters ● Oct. 2, 2023
Prominent leak cases involving the act include that of Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers by photocopying the secret history of the Vietnam War and giving it to The New York Times.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
In Kinko’s, Wednesday set about photocopying the deposit slips from the bank.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: photo
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