epigonic

variants or epigonous

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for epigonic
Adjective
  • As injuries mounted up, the more formulaic Arsenal became, and the yearning for someone more expressive grew.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • However, despite the model appearing somewhat formulaic, Kishton emphasized that collaborative care programs vary across institutions.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • This recycling of historical materials, multiplied by the dozens of characters developed in Bomarzo, produces a mimetic effect.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • To get robotic collectives closer to Terminator’s mimetic polyalloy, the team wants to make the robots smaller.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The active chemicals in cannabis mimic natural brain molecules called endocannabinoids, which stimulate cannabinoid receptors — together, these two elements represent the brain’s endocannabinoid system.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In this business, modern vinyl finishes that mimic wood, stone, or metal offer affordable design upgrades without expensive renovations.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • In addition to thinking about how to escape John’s imitative poetry and scholasticism, Constantine had to consider his own future.
    Gregory Jusdanis, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
  • In Roeck’s picture, competitive, rather than imitative, habits of mind rose from religious warfare, establishing a cutthroat system of cultural and economic innovation which lasts to this day.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Adjective
  • In sales, trust is currency, and nothing burns trust faster than sounding unoriginal, lazy or shady.
    Don Markland, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Meta said unoriginal content is when images or videos are reused without crediting the original creator.
    Zach Vallese, CNBC, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Burmese shops in Milwaukee sell dozens of kinds of canned or jarred items, including pickled ginger, pickled dogfruit, taro root and lotus root.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Some canned sardines are high in salt, and eating too much could mean excess sodium, Hadley says.
    Erica Sweeney, EverydayHealth.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • People who climb upward by sacrificing their integrity to slavish subservience almost always fall on their faces eventually.
    Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The film’s slavish dedication to its source material — the challenging of which would open its own can of worms — demands ignoring all potential complexity in favor of didactic conclusions.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • In his twilight years, Art would make good on his name and let his penchant for art shine, brightening the lives of the residents of Cedar Mountain Commons with his signature acrylic paintings, including the colorful, apish Jojo.
    courant.com, courant.com, 5 Nov. 2019
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“Epigonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epigonic. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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