copier
Americannoun
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a person or device that copies
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another word for copyist
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Noun Inflected Forms
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Origin of copier
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Angelo has to pretend he’s a copier salesman with business meetings in Rochester, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
“There has long been this kind narrative that China is a copier of US innovation, but I think this was really showing there is transformative work coming out of AI labs.”
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
“He looked at me and said, `Are you some sort of a high-end gambler or something?’” asked the guy working the copier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
I’m a copier who gets ideas from other basketball coaches.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
The copier wheezed, gears spinning to print my indisputable facts.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Beijing also launched a national security review into imported printers and copiers.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the early 1990s, David Dorsey spent a year shadowing executives selling copiers for then-booming Xerox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The way computers, cellphones, stereos, printers and copiers were being disposed of previously was to simply add them to a landfill without reusing salvageable parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
Over the hum of copiers, Ter-Pogosyan told me, “I didn’t know about him or his family, but I’m trying to keep it so everyone knows this was Walt Disney’s first studio.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
Everyone had BlackBerrys pressed to their heads and there was a sea of cables underfoot for all the computers and printers and copiers they’d brought in.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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