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- verb Present participle of
miscopy .
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Examples
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The number itself may reflect poetic convention, miscopying or plain exaggeration.
Early medieval armies: numbers Carla 2010
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The number itself may reflect poetic convention, miscopying or plain exaggeration.
Archive 2010-06-01 Carla 2010
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I suppose one reason why even the miscopying of gardens provokes so little offence is that the acts it mimics have no art it can murder.
The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884
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Project, in which they use genetically modified mice that are prone to miscopying DNA and thus to mutations.
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Project, in which they use genetically modified mice that are prone to miscopying DNA and thus to mutations.
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A text may gain or lose lemmata through repeated miscopying, but as equation (3) shows, the overall trend will be toward replacement of less common lemmata by more common ones, with the eventual loss of lemmata from the text.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John L. Cisne et al. 2010
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Inspired mostly by the 5th comment, I just posted something on how ancient Greeks and Romans represented numerals: it’s even more prone to miscopying than you probably thought.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Careful Relying on Ancient Sources: 2009
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