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epigone

noun

ˈe-pə-ˌgōn

Definition of epigone

as in adherent

one who follows the opinions or teachings of another few of director Alfred Hitchcock's many epigones possess quite the same wit or style as the master

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Recent Examples of epigone But clearly no cautious epigone, Dawson responded to Dvorak’s charge with results that are entirely his own. — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2023 That became the conventional wisdom once their stateside epigones took up the cry. — Tom Carson, New York Times, 1 June 2016

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Baric worked closely with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which many adherents to the lab-leak theory posit as the source of the pandemic; one contingent thinks that Baric might have been the creator of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Many liberals had been disciplined to adopt methods that purported to strictly confine legal interpretation, only to discover that their most prominent adherents, whether covertly or unconsciously, had other plans.

— Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 2 July 2026

Definition of adherent

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Mascots, once an afterthought, are celebrities—Gritty, the beguiling ogre that represents Philadelphia’s hockey team, the Flyers, has significantly more Instagram followers than any of the team’s players.

— Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Johnson, known as DreamDoll Brii on social media, was a budding influencer with more than 100,000 followers on Instagram and more than 500,000 on her TikTok account _itgirbri.

— Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2026

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Exhibited for the first time outside of Sarajevo, the churning Socialist Realist homage invokes Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People in figuring partisans heroically overcoming their would-be Nazi aggressors.

— Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026
Reynolds tracks the willingness of northern partisans—Carl Schurz, Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, and even Sumner himself—to abandon that cause by the dwindling references to Jamestown and Plymouth.

— James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026

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