printout
Americannoun
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printouts
plural
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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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After he landed, he delayed the start of the Congress by more than two hours, communicating it through a printout slid under the doors of delegates’ hotel rooms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
One stack of papers was a copyedited manuscript—basically a printout from a computer file that had been marked up in colored pencil with a bunch of edit marks.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
Accredited witnesses are handed a copy and paper printouts of the tallies are also transported to the CNE by the military.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2024
Players made printouts of the rankings to put in their lockers, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2023
Instead, computer-generated printouts are submitted to court, and only then does the court take on the case.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2023
Nobody passed him as he continued through a Plexiglas walkway into Block B. There were computer screens everywhere, glowing in cramped offices piled high with papers and printouts.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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