copies

[copĀ·y]

A copy is a reproduction of something it looks identical to the original. You might ask your sister to make a copy of your nephew's adorable painting so you can hang it on your fridge.

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Usage Examples

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure!

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.

Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

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