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printout

[print-out] / ˈprɪntˌaʊt /
NOUN
hard copy
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They gave her a black-and-white printout of the image instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

Trump’s post Thursday appeared to be a photograph of a printout, which was labeled “Council of Economic Advisers.”

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

During the chorus of their 1988 music video for “A Little Respect,” composer Vince Clarke hands vocalist Andy Bell a tiny printout of the word “RESPECT.”

From Salon Dec. 31, 2025

The printout I bring to the Getty contains references to houses, nodes and aspect patterns that mean nothing to me, but Garfield makes quick work of interpreting the language.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 17, 2024

Behind it are printout machines, row on row of them; these machines are known as Holy Rollers, but only among us, it’s a disrespectful nickname.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

ICE agents often have printouts with names and pictures of petitioners they want to detain, but they are consistently unable to accurately match them with names on the court dockets.

From Slate Oct. 10, 2025

Accredited witnesses are handed a copy and paper printouts of the tallies are also transported to the CNE by the military.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2024

According to court filings, the city responded to the discovery request for the documents by converting printouts of the original Microsoft Word documents into PDFs.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2024

That was understood to mean pasting into them printouts of the published results and methodology or omitting contrary details that challenged the paper’s conclusions.

From Science Magazine Nov. 12, 2023

“Bill, did you get the printouts of the data?”

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper




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