copy-and-paste

plural copy-and-pastes

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of copy-paste.

   The KPA’s works were beyond copy-and-pastes of the Soviet works.

   2018, Youngjun Kim, Origins of the North Korean Garrison State: The People’s Army and the Korean War (Cold War History), Routledge, →ISBN

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   We mention XCOPY here because it is the command-line way of basically doing a copy-and-paste of the files you want to move.

   2008, Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader, Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB, Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 1493

   I am not arguing for a copy-and-paste of Orkney future-making practices to urban centers of design and innovation.

   2014, Laura Watts, “Liminal Futures: Poem for Islands at the Edge”, in James Leach, Lee Wilson, editors, Subversion, Conversion, Development: Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design, Cambridge, Mass.; London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 34

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1. alternativeAlternative form of copy-paste.

   Even the very title of Proclamation No. 23/1992 was simply copy-and-pasted onto Proclamation No. 37/1993.

   2014, Kjetil Tronvoll, Daniel R[ezene] Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights & Political Development in Eritrea, James Currey, →ISBN, page 30

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   Image and filter sequences were composed using Photoshop layers and then copy-and-pasted onto Director’s Internal Cast palette.

   1997, Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, Photoshop 4 for Macintosh, Peachpit, →ISBN, page 265

   But instead of designing new work for this new offering, Hirst, do-nothing artist of our time, simply copy-and-pasted his old stuff.

   2013 October 4, Mallika Rao, “Damien Hirst's Children's Book, Reviewed By A Six-Year-Old Painter (PHOTOS)”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021

   I simply copy-and-pasted it from the original pilot-project article – the one I had turned over to Dr. Bhattacharya last fall because I could no longer bear looking at it.

   2016, Kakali Bhattacharya, Norman K. Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative (Teaching Race and Ethnicity), Sense Publishers, →ISBN, page 167

   Called in Japanese language “matome [meaning “compilation”] site”; it designates a round-up and add-up site which collects and “copy-and-pastes” information from other websites, SNS or anonymous textboards,.

   2017, Yuriko Haga, “Right to be Forgotten: A New Privacy Right in the Era of Internet”, in Marcelo Corrales, Mark Fenwick, Nikolaus Forgó, editors, New Technology, Big Data and the Law (Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., →ISBN, part I (Purpose and Limitation), page 117

   Following his aim of linguistically adapting the quote to its new Young Avestan context, he replaced the Old Avestan stem drəguuaṇt- by its regular Young Avestan equivalent druuaṇt- and removed the characteristic Old Avestan final long vowels, which are usually maintained when an Old Avestan passage is simply ‘copy-and-pasted’ into a Young Avestan environment.

   2022, Benedikt Peschl, The First Three Hymns of the Ahunauuaitī Gāθā: The Avestan Text of Yasna 28–30 and Its Tradition, Brill, →ISBN, page 227