Thesaurus results for IMITATOR

imitator

noun

as in follower

a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way an Elvis imitator in a sequinned jumpsuit

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as in performer

a person who imitates another's voice and mannerisms for comic effect that comedian is a hilarious imitator of a surprising array of current celebrities

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Recent Examples of imitator And these are now increasingly fragile as a result of global unrest, climate change and a host of imitators. —

Rebekah Evans, TheWeek, 19 May 2026 The dish everyone comes for is the spicy rigatoni vodka, a plate that’s launched a thousand imitators across the country. —

Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 May 2026 By early 1985, IBM—the computing giant that dominated corporate America—and its imitators had captured nearly half the personal computer market, up from about a third just months earlier. —

Geoffrey Cain, Vanity Fair, 11 May 2026 Well, actually the worst thing would be to have a — a really good imitator of any president that came along. —

Alex Crippen, CNBC, 9 May 2026 Baseball is a copycat league, and success breeds imitators. —

Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026 In Karp’s telling, Basquiat is someone who Just Did Things, like today’s defense tech founders, who possess a similar kind of creative conviction, as opposed to the consumer tech imitators of yesteryear. —

Simon Denny, Artforum, 20 Apr. 2026 This cheesecake imitator is delicious topped with fresh strawberries, but other fruits can be substituted, such as pineapple or peaches. —

Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 13 Apr. 2026 This is the first Hitchcock film that fully crystallizes his distinct sense of dark humor, which is one of the key elements that sets his thrillers apart from those of his contemporaries and imitators. —

Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Online, this generally meant that creators encouraged their followers to pair a healthy habit with a fun or existing one (scrolling while walking on the treadmill, for example) or to just link two good behaviors together (folding laundry between breaks of your at-home workout).

— Julia Landwehr, Health, 18 May 2026
With more than four million followers and billions of views across platforms, Garg has built a global fanbase through her sharp, deeply relatable observations on family, culture, and modern life.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 18 May 2026