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copyists

noun

plural of copyist

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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Boards can adopt it, investors can ask for it, cities can condition incentives on it, and the companies with the best results have the most to gain from standards, because standards are how leaders get distinguished from imitators.

— Tonya M. Evans, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
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.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 2 July 2026

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Medical schools, though, are facing a vexing quandary over AI scribes.

— Lauren Chan, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026
But somewhere in the show’s creative journey and the blending of British television veterans and scribes from inside Jackson’s Power-verse, a lot of the specificity vanished into the ether.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026

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The Shapiros were accused by some followers of bringing Kala into their family for financial gain.

— Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
In The Bacchae, Dionysus becomes violent only because his existence has been denied and his followers persecuted, and his maenads similarly become destructive only when pursued.

— Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2026

Definition of followers

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But Thomas Tuchel took those echoes and put a colossal microphone in front of them, cranking up the decibels to make this failure worse than the others.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Whatever its international echoes, the exhibition incited local responses by far-right entities.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026

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