Example Sentences

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By the spring of 2018, homeowners were copying D.C. government agencies on emails to the developer asking that they take a closer look at ongoing structural issues.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2021

He also said the lawyers filed a "copy and paste" complaint lifting allegations from other Trumpworld lawsuits and should have realized "the lawsuits from which they were copying had failed."

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2021

By the time he left Vail in 2006, competitors were copying his strategy.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2021

The similarities between the tweets, she said, may have been because ambassadors were copying each other.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2019

She was wearing dark sunglasses, almost as if she were copying Nicole.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin