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- verb Present participle of
xerox .
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Examples
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Mike Cane is right, fanzines and punk-era xeroxing were the blogs of their day.
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Please tell me that's not the quality of the flyer they sent out and just the quality of the 'xeroxing'?
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But as you can see as with photocopying we have taken the tradename XEROX and applied it to that process and say we're "xeroxing" this or that; its just common usage.
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Chap Stick Levi's Sheetrock Coca-Cola/Coke Life Savers Simoniz Cuisinart Mack (truck) Slim Jim Dictaphone Magic Marker Styrofoam Dixie Cups Miltown Technicolor Fig Newtons Novocain TV Dinners Frigidaire Ping-Pong Vaseline Frisbee Polaroid Xerox Hi-Liter Pop Tarts Walkman Jeep Popsicle Wiffle Ball Jell-O Pyrex X-Acto Knife Do you talk or write about "xeroxing" a document no matter what machine you use to do the photocopying?
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But alas the heroines never do, preferring to squeeze every last ambiguous nuance out of a phrase like: ‘Would you ensure that xeroxing gets done by five o’clock tonight, Petunia?
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Do you run around correcting people when they call generic tissue paper kleenex, or talk about xeroxing a document?
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Let the big-wigs do their own xeroxing and run their own errands to Quick Print for a change.
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We are going to have to be pulling invoices and xeroxing for weeks.
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But alas the heroines never do, preferring to squeeze every last ambiguous nuance out of a phrase like: ‘Would you ensure that xeroxing gets done by five o’clock tonight, Petunia?
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I tried for months to get an entry-level job at ABC news, answering phones, xeroxing, whatever, but I couldn't get hired.
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