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Examples of carbon copy in a Sentence
I'll need a carbon copy of that receipt.
She's a carbon copy of her mother.
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In fact, the goal is nearly a carbon copy of the against-the-grain spoiler that Garland once scored in the first-ever Kraken home game.
—Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 28 Dec. 2024
What works in active The rise of active ETFs is not a carbon copy of old-school stock picking.
—Jesse Pound, CNBC, 28 Dec. 2024
While there are plenty of no-name carbon copy trainers and NPCs scattered throughout Pokémon, the characters that are part of the story tend to be wildly varied, with no two major characters being all that alike.
—Oliver Brandt, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
No, the security side of things comes into play when someone has added the wrong person to a carbon copy field when inputting a bunch of addresses.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1876, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Carbon copy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbon%20copy. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
carbon copy
noun1
: a copy made with carbon paper
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