Example Sentences

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Perhaps she considers it a dramatic cheat, as though the writer were copping out of the hard work of dramatization.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

The assumption was that if you made abstract art then you were copping out, that you were choosing to be with the mainstream.”

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2012