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I'll need a carbon copy of that receipt.
She's a carbon copy of her mother.
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In the band’s 50-minute set on the main stage on Saturday, at times Nowell was a carbon copy of his father, jumping from a death metal-like growl into his father’s trilling higher falsetto.
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
Susie Glass, the crime boss Eddie reports to, is essentially a carbon copy of Michelle Dockery’s Rosalind, from her cherry-red lips to her sky-high stilettos to her generally imperturbable air.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
Susie Glass, the crime boss Eddie reports to, is essentially a carbon copy of Michelle Dockery’s Rosalind, from her cherry-red lips to her sky-high stilettos to her generally imperturbable air.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for carbon copy
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“Carbon copy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20copy. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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