Meanings
adjectivescanned-in (not comparable)
- not comparableOf a text or imagehaving had a digital copy made on a scanner.
Had I access to large databases of scanned-in newspapers from the Philippines, or Africa, or India, etc., we would expect to see a good percentage of antedatings of the current earliest instances.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 14
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