carbon copy

noun

1
: a copy made by carbon paper
2
: duplicate
is a carbon copy of his father

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 See all Example Sentences for carbon copy 

Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of carbon copy was in 1876

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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

noun
1
: a copy made with carbon paper
2

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