Example Sentences

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Manjoo had copied the odd image from somewhere else on the internet and added the comment: “We should honor these men, look what war has done to their hands.”

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2024

But in May, Ms. Loffstadt stopped posting her creations after she learned that a data company had copied her stories and fed them into the artificial intelligence technology underlying ChatGPT, the viral chatbot.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2023

John Lewis has won a court battle with an author who claimed the retailer had copied one of her designs in an advert.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

The officials learned from the Chinese defector that the test involved a 150-kiloton explosion that used a particular oval-shaped core, leading analysts to conclude that China had copied the warhead design from the American design.

From Washington Times • Jan. 8, 2023

The tautomeric forms I had copied out of Davidson’s book were, in Jerry’s opinion, incorrectly assigned.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson