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- noun Plural form of
copying .
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Examples
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We should be able to, someday, trace ourselves back through 50 billion DNA copyings over 4 billion years to determine our LUCA.
Patrick Takahashi: Science and the Future of Cloning: Is Immortality Possible? 2010
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We should be able to, someday, trace ourselves back through 50 billion DNA copyings over 4 billion years to determine our LUCA.
Patrick Takahashi: Science and the Future of Cloning: Is Immortality Possible? Patrick Takahashi 2010
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We should be able to, someday, trace ourselves back through 50 billion DNA copyings over 4 billion years to determine our LUCA.
Patrick Takahashi: Science and the Future of Cloning: Is Immortality Possible? 2010
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After a few hundred copyings, the chromosome is getting so short at the end that meaningful genes are in danger of being left off...
Is Health Care Worth It, Con't, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was covered with repeated copyings of a single name -- sometimes the whole name, sometimes only one or other of the initial letters to it.
The Vision of Desire Margaret Pedler
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And then the little girls, peeping through the shutters, and holding their breath to see better, saw what they beheld every year; but it was always new and awesome -- mysterious scribbling in corners with lead-pencils on scraps of paper; consultations; rewritings; copyings; the list of their sins, of all the sins of their lives.
Balcony Stories Grace E. King
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The mere delusive imitations, the servile copyings of the actual shapes of reality, are not the proper objects of art.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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During that walk, I remember, she told me the import of her sketchings and copyings in the museum.
Tono Bungay 1906
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What mutilations these manuscripts underwent in the course of various copyings is hard now to estimate.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
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Copying is one genuine mode of knowing (which for some strange reason our contemporary transcendentalists seem to be tumbling over each other to repudiate); but when we get beyond copying, and fall back on unnamed forms of agreeing that are expressly denied to be either copyings or leadings or fittings, or any other processes pragmatically definable, the WHAT of the 'agreement' claimed becomes as unintelligible as the why of it.
Pragmatism William James 1876
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