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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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Improving efficiency and property management—Gone are the days of triplicate carbon copies or a ring full of keys.
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Advertorial, Orange County Register, 12 June 2024
This playoff series, of course, is not a carbon copy of the last.
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Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
In an era of political carbon copies, Joe Lieberman was a singularity.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2024
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
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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 7 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
carbon copy
noun1
: a copy made with carbon paper
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