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Verb
From left: Gracie DeLong's parrot, Popeye, perches on a person's leg; and her 10-month-old son, Jackson, cries.—Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025 Two new studies show that successful efforts to bring animals back into global cities come with widespread benefits
The kākā (Nestor meridionalis) is a large parrot found only in Aotearoa New Zealand.—Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
Fans, some of them little kids parroting what their parents were saying, called him vile names.—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025 Many still cannot understand why US President Donald Trump has turned so furiously on Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, parroting the vitriolic disinformation usually heard from the Kremlin.—Rob Picheta, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parrot
After completing the first big area of the game and meeting a giant god-like ape that resembles a headphone-wearing homage to The Jungle Book’s King Louie, a musical sequence shatters the stone revealing it to be a young girl named Pauline.
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Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
1 July 2025
What applies for other apes is best kept in mind for ourselves as well, says Schuppli.
The Committee will no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas.
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Will Stone,
NPR,
9 June 2025
In the past, the White House has generally approved disaster reimbursements to states, and the Homeland Security secretary has largely functioned as a rubber stamp.
For me, what’s shocking is not the cost, but that there is surprise among the people quoted in the story, especially a Washington D.C. City Councilmember who attended a ribbon cutting for the project only later to find out the price tag.
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Roger Valdez,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
The original film, adapted from Lauren Weisberger’s novel, earned $326 million worldwide, secured Streep an Academy Award nomination, and has become one of the most beloved and frequently quoted movies of the century.
The Copycat Conundrum: When Local Laws Protect Your Competitors
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of international franchising involves dealing with local copycat operations that exploit legal protections designed for domestic businesses.
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Mohaimina Haque,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
But neither the farm bill, nor Indiana's copycat law, specifically mentioned cannabanoid variations Delta 8 and Delta 10.
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