as in echos
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 copies
to make an exact likeness of
asked her stylist to copycat a hairstyle from the magazine
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as in imitates
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 copycats
Hannah Berman
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
And Strategy’s copycats aren’t stopping at bitcoin–they’re buying ether, solana and a whole roster of other digital assets.
—Julie Goldenberg, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
Survivor’s debut in 2000 marked a turning point in reality television innovation; afterward, many copycats spawned, inspired by the complexity of the gameplay.
—Hannah Berman
august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
And Strategy’s copycats aren’t stopping at bitcoin–they’re buying ether, solana and a whole roster of other digital assets.
—Julie Goldenberg, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for copycats
Noun
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Top off fall fits with cozy scarves—think last year’s iconic Acne Studio scarf (and its many imitators) that is still going strong.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The LLMs behind generative agents and chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are certainly expert imitators.—
Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2025
Verb
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And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Aug. 2025
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Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Aug. 2025
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Sometimes art imitates life by skipping a generation.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
2 Sep. 2025
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His rhetoric occasionally imitates Trump when talking about China and the World Trade Organization.—
Taylor Millard,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Strangers turned to followers and views into food orders.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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Tate has amassed more than 10 million followers on X and hundreds of thousands more on other platforms like Telegram and Truth Social.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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At its core, DeFi replicates traditional financial services without banks or intermediaries.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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And in 2024, a team of scientists at Stanford University examined how the COVID-19 virus replicates inside human cells.—
Katarina Zimmer,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The simple and classic wreath emulates harvest season, without all of the Thanksgiving tropes like pumpkins or squash.—
Mariana Best,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Sep. 2025
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The nickname is the latest in a long line of posts from Newsom's team that emulates the style of President Trump- provocative and unashamedly boisterous.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Quintosapore innovative farming project may be nestled in the verdant and peaceful Umbrian hills, but echoes of Hollywood and Cinecittà are not too distant.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
6 Sep. 2025
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For many people, Stewart included, conjure’s echoes ring loudest in the kitchen.—
Danielle Amir Jackson,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The system processed over 100,000 video clips from both real-world recordings and the aforementioned Unreal Engine renders.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Sep. 2025
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The process requires hundreds of delicate manual steps, and any contamination renders a dose unusable.—
Jennifer Kite-Powell,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Copycats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copycats. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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