duplicating machine
AmericanEtymology
Origin of duplicating machine
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.
From BBC
Day and night, they printed thousands of new, even bolder, leaflets on a hand-cranked duplicating machine, possibly purchased with the money Sophie asked to borrow from Fritz.
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And then he added thoughtfully, “We really ought to have a duplicating machine.”
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Sophie grabbed a leaflet and noted that it had been produced on a duplicating machine.
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Indignation is not the only element in this series, which takes its style from Russian constructivism and its two-color scheme from the Risograph, a Japanese duplicating machine.
From Washington Post
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