copyists

plural of copyist
1
as in imitators
a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way she prides herself on being an innovator in fashion, and not a mere copyist

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as in scribes
one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts some scholars argue that the vexing passage reflects a misreading of the text by an early copyist

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Noun
  • That instinct to merge craftsmanship with culture has kept him ahead of imitators.
    Janee Bolden, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Build a content machine that runs so fast, followers see you as the source, not the imitators.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Writing and agriculture were so closely intertwined that the Sumerian goddess of grain, Nisaba, eventually also became the goddess of writing and patron of scribes.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • And our senior writers are basically the 1999 Rams offense of football scribes.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • By the end of the season, Unrivaled’s main accounts across six platforms reached nearly 400,000 followers, while its clubs added another 334,000 combined.
    Roberta F. Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • By then Kirk had amassed millions of followers across social media, and The Charlie Kirk Show became one of the most popular political podcasts in the country.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over millennia, marine animals have honed ears and sonar-like abilities to read their world in vibrations and echoes, turning the ocean into a place both alive with sound and fine-tuned to its subtleties.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But his spices aren’t the only things that have echoes of home.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Copyists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copyists. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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