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  • noun Plural form of copybook.

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Examples

  • Personally, and as far as it goes, I see nothing wrong in continuous re-election of elected officials, given the proviso that they may be kicked out of office at the half-way point of any successive administration if they blot their copybooks to the extent that the electorate becomes adequately enraged to seek their removal by due democratic process as prescribed in the country's Constitution.

    Venezuela'pposition political fog-horns are already blasting through the accumulated smoke after shash & burn pogroms! 2009

  • The jottings were scattered with other notes throughout some of the 73 exercise copybooks found 30 years after Christie's death among possessions in her seaside home.

    Forgotten Agatha Christie novel discovered 30 years after her death... in the attic of her holiday home 2009

  • The jottings were scattered with other notes throughout some of the 73 exercise copybooks found 30 years after Christie's death among possessions in her seaside home.

    August 2009 2009

  • Schools still teach cursive, usually the bare-bones style called D'Nealian, but they rarely make time to practice it the old-fashioned way with copybooks and constant repetition.

    Call The Script Doctor 2008

  • “Tell Charles to take these copybooks and this note to the school at once.”

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • At a Glance: Get out your copybooks, because you can now cross "ballet" off of the "Big List of Things the Japanese Won't Make Porno Out Of".

    Boing Boing: September 5, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives 2004

  • When she returned from the church where she had seen Lavretsky she set everything in her room in order more carefully than usual, dusted it everywhere, looked through and tied up with ribbon all her copybooks, and the letters of her girl-friends, shut up all the drawers, watered the flowers and caressed every blossom with her hand.

    A House of Gentlefolk 2003

  • I suggested to him about a transparent showcart with two smart girls sitting inside writing letters, copybooks, envelopes, blottingpaper.

    Ulysses 2003

  • He'd only been able to have a few sessions with Erhana and her copybooks, but already he could pick out some of the letters in his books, although the script was curved and more elaborate than that in hers.

    The White Order Modesitt, L. E. 1998

  • Appropriating used copybooks, he copied the lessons in margins and empty spaces.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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