mimeograph

noun

mim·eo·graph ˈmi-mē-ə-ˌgraf

: a duplicator for making many copies that utilizes a stencil through which ink is pressed

mimeograph transitive verb

Examples of mimeograph in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web An angry man typing out memos about an invisible world government might make a few mimeographs or carbon copies, but the chance that any ended up in a library, catalogued and preserved, is slight. —

Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023 The rarely exhibited three-page mimeograph is one of several drafts King and his advisors wrote. —

Briana A. Thomas, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023 Ed Sanders, who read his first poems at Les Deux Mégots in 1961, remembered it as a place of political activism and a new, young poetics shaped by mimeograph machines and spirited readings. —

John Leland, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023 Instead of home economics and wood shop, Coyote learned how to operate a mimeograph. —

Bryce Dole and Zack Demars, oregonlive, 30 July 2022 The civil rights leader’s reply—drafted in the margins of a newspaper, on bits of paper left behind by a black trustee and on legal pads left behind by lawyers—was smuggled out of the jail and eventually compiled into a mimeograph. —

Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2021 Cockburn was among a crop of journalists during the mid-20th century who turned their back on traditional media and used the mimeograph to go directly to their readers. —

Michael Waters, Wired, 28 Sep. 2020 Originally produced on a mimeograph, the calendar successfully adapted to the computer and internet eras. —

James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2018 When Howarth began teaching in 1987, teachers mingled in a smoking lounge, and copies were cranked out on a mimeograph. —

Debbie Truong, Washington Post, 1 July 2018 See More

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