Example Sentences

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People have been copying the names of their social superiors from the time of the Norman Conquest.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2016

The local investigators have been copying large amounts of memos, tax records and financial documents.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2014

People have been copying for so long that the act has moved beyond aesthetic novelty — first, to encoded-with-meaning significance and, finally, into the realm of the hackneyed and dull.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2012

This is true even though we have been copying and improving other people's physical objects just as long as we have been building them.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2012

They had asked if she knew anything about a classified report her ex-husband may have been copying.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin