as in imitator
a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way
every rock singer who makes it big soon has a whole cluster of copycats
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as in to copy
to make an exact likeness of
asked her stylist to copycat a hairstyle from the magazine
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as in to imitate
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior
a performer who slavishly copycats another never rises to the level of true stardom
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Recent Examples of copycat
New Atlas,
9 June 2026
But with what seems like a Ripper copycat on the loose, everyone needs to put aside their preconceived notions and figure out what’s going on.
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Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
Krista Simmons,
Sunset Magazine,
20 Jan. 2023
Sometimes, people will copycat what other teams have done.
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David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Sep. 2022
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Noun
No one can ever accuse Mammoth Overland of being a copycat.
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New Atlas,
9 June 2026
But with what seems like a Ripper copycat on the loose, everyone needs to put aside their preconceived notions and figure out what’s going on.
—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
Verb
And that applies to fashion design, decor, and even to the travel industry, where there’s a real tendency to copycat successful ideas.
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Krista Simmons,
Sunset Magazine,
20 Jan. 2023
Sometimes, people will copycat what other teams have done.
—
David Furones,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copycat
Noun
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But the arrival of Buc-ee's supercharged the trend and spawned imitators like Wally's, which has three 50,000-square-foot locations in the Midwest, with plans for more.
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The frontier labs keep shipping the next capability while the imitators are still training on the last one, and the value keeps accruing to whoever is ahead rather than to whoever copied the leader's previous answers.
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The system for copying parts of the genome into RNA for protein production comes from a virus called T7.
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Her own granddaughter's baptism dress included embroideries copied from that dress.
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Here was a government that had explicitly borrowed from Beijing’s developmental playbook and sincerely attempted to imitate it, but failed.
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These are glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists that imitate a natural hormone in the gut.
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The mom of two shares videos and photos of her fashion creations and her daughters wearing them with over 29,000 TikTok followers.
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In 1776, the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, Quakers made a formal stance against slavery, prohibiting followers of the faith from engaging in the institution.
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Yet many could still replicate portions of its economic evolution by broadening participation, encouraging private enterprise, welcoming additional foreign investors, and leveraging competition among outside powers to secure more favorable outcomes.
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After some more tweaking and optimizing, the cell started growing and replicating its DNA.
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Outfits such as The Bespoke Retreat Company, The Nest in Cornwall and Wales’ Coach House Retreat have emulated the solo aspect.
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The driveway boys emulated everybody on those rosters.
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There may be echoes of history on George’s first day.
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This gas absorbs that light and also pulses, with this secondary pulse serving as an echo of the first.
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Unlike conventional gaming headsets that primarily separate audio into left and right channels, Spherephones reproduces sound from above, below, behind, and in front of the user.
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As for one of the franchise's other biggest mysteries — how the characters reproduce — Coffin has a simple answer.
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“Copycat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copycat. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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