Examples of carbon copy in a Sentence
I'll need a carbon copy of that receipt.
She's a carbon copy of her mother.
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Smith thrives in high-risk, high-reward environments, so the Axon board granted Smith a near carbon copy of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s moonshot pay plan but on a much smaller scale.
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Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Sound like a carbon copy of last week’s Bay Area weather?
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
The Tokyo Disneyland park looks like a carbon copy of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando but is home to a few more high-tech attractions.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
That’s because the spacecraft that ultimately crashes on earth is a virtual carbon copy of the Nostromo, the ship flown by Ridley (Sigourney Weaver) and her crew in the 1979 film from Ridley Scott.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
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Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Sound like a carbon copy of last week’s Bay Area weather?
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
The Tokyo Disneyland park looks like a carbon copy of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando but is home to a few more high-tech attractions.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
That’s because the spacecraft that ultimately crashes on earth is a virtual carbon copy of the Nostromo, the ship flown by Ridley (Sigourney Weaver) and her crew in the 1979 film from Ridley Scott.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Carbon copy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20copy. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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