photocopied; photocopying; photocopies
: to make a photocopy of
: to make a photocopy
photocopier
noun
pho·to·copier
"+
: one that makes photocopies
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Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
She's tried to convince people to lend logbooks or family journals to the historical society to photocopy for data collection.
—Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025
The title itself sounds like something photocopied, a teasing appropriation from any old business-news listicle.
—Christopher Spaide
october 3, Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025
Apatow had with him a chaotic pile of notes—scrawled by hand, photocopied, clearly out of order, some upside down.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
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Verb
The effect of all these wildly inventive choices is of a splintered consciousness — and of an image that’s been photocopied so many times its pixels have become blobs.
—Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2026
She's tried to convince people to lend logbooks or family journals to the historical society to photocopy for data collection.
—Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025
The title itself sounds like something photocopied, a teasing appropriation from any old business-news listicle.
—Christopher Spaide
october 3, Literary Hub, 3 Oct. 2025
Apatow had with him a chaotic pile of notes—scrawled by hand, photocopied, clearly out of order, some upside down.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Photocopy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photocopy. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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