pasting
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Workers at the Pyroshine factory were now busy pasting wolf-themed packaging onto boxes to be shipped to the United States.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
This game is more about how Aston Villa respond to their defeat at Arsenal, because they took a bit of a pasting.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026
The U.S. botched copying and pasting a relatively straightforward warship already in service in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
Some are nicknamed jumping genes because they literally jump around, copying and pasting themselves into different parts of our genome just as if they were still viral invaders.
From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025
It was late in the evening when I finally finished reading and pasting the last article.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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