printout
Americannoun
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printouts
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of printout
First recorded in 1950–55; noun use of verb phrase print out
Example Sentences
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They gave her a black-and-white printout of the image instead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
“The next time I went to get my oil changed, I took a printout of that panorama and was going to show it to them and ask, ‘Do you know anything about this?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Trump’s post Thursday appeared to be a photograph of a printout, which was labeled “Council of Economic Advisers.”
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
“But I can appreciate what you’re saying,” he continued, before handing me a printout of an article titled “Slowing Down as the World Speeds Up.”
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
Ray didn’t exactly say this, but he gave me the printout, which implied it, right?
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
Maxwell had access to a digital legal database, but he sometimes relied on acquaintances outside prison to look up cases or articles and send him physical printouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The short two-paragraph complaint to the police submitted by Sanchi's family on the night of 11 July came with printouts of some photos and videos as evidence.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025
In the radio booth, Steiner and Monday keep their laptop computers on, even amid printouts of all kinds of statistics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Instead, computer-generated printouts are submitted to court, and only then does the court take on the case.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2023
At Base Camp he pored over reams of computer printouts detailing logistical minutiae: menus, spare parts, tools, medicines, communications hardware, load-hauling schedules, yak availability.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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