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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
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.
—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
Tomorrow’s nearly a carbon copy of today with bright sunshine and light winds (around 5 mph).
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2024
Suddenly, the 243 passengers of Flight 006 have to reckon with confronting carbon copies of themselves, who have been leading parallel lives for the past three months.
—Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
When twins aren’t being regarded as carbon copies, they are slotted (or slot themselves) into opposing roles, which de Bres uses as an entry point for a chapter on the psychology, the temptations, and the costs of binary thinking.
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
Pace's Brother Day—the 18th in the cycle—is most definitely not a mere carbon copy of Cleon the First.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 July 2023
But the Chargers had practically a carbon copy of that drive.
—Ryan Morik, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2023
An angry man typing out memos about an invisible world government might make a few mimeographs or carbon copies, but the chance that any ended up in a library, catalogued and preserved, is slight.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2023
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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 14 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
carbon copy
noun1
: a copy made with carbon paper
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