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Recent Examples of knockoff
Verb
DeVille traces the knockoff effect that happened over time, like when the unpredictable pop experimentalists of MGMT were succeeded—and commercially eclipsed—by bands with blander takes on their ideas (Capital Cities, Foster the People, Empire of the Sun). Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025 Any popular product is going to see its fair share of cheap knockoffs. Devonne Goode, Parents, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
Even venture capital spending, when viewed from 1995 to 2022, wasn’t knocked off its steady growth trajectory. Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025 The Dodgers knocked off the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1, in 11 innings Thursday, winning the NL Division Series in four games, and now advance to the National League Championship Series to face the winner of the Milwaukee Brewers-Chicago Cubs series Monday. Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for knockoff
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knockoff
Verb
  • Wearing a floor-length brown double-breasted coat featuring buttons that stopped at her waist, the attire created a sultry thigh-high slit that allowed Jolie's leg to peek through.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Studies in animals and reports from people show that the side effects of this drug can continue even after someone stops taking it.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As well as finding comfort on arrival, Smith is determined that those who move on do not feel abandoned.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The novel can get busy—Taylor introduces each of Wyeth’s studio mates in the first chapter, then all but abandons half of them to squeeze in more significant characters—but there’s a warmth in the overcrowding.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Apple isn’t the first to subtract the plus sign from its streaming platform.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • But in an Akan language, the notion that an object could exist as a bare substrate, stripped of properties—say, the idea of a stone, with its weight, texture, and color subtracted—is basically unintelligible; the metaphysical split between a thing and its properties isn’t naturally expressible.
    Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Louvre was robbed The museum is closed while police investigate.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Directed by Sara Talab, this evocative period drama unfolds in 1960s Jeddah, where a young musician’s life is upended when illness robs him of his hearing.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That all changed during the first hours of the terror attack, when the kibbutz was all but burned to ashes, with over a quarter of its residents murdered or abducted – infants, the elderly and entire families among them.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this year, a jury convicted Lawyer McBride of murdering 29-year-old Rashanda Franklin on April 4, 2017, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office.
    Jason Green, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kirkland Signature The best part about Costco is, inarguably, Kirkland Signature, their line of countless copycats of popular food, decor, or fashion items.
    Katherine Polcari, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Moisture and energy from Tropical Storm Raymond will play copycat and get steered by the same weather system into Mexico and the Southwest, although a bit farther east than Priscilla.
    Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • However, during the shutdown, VA benefits regional offices are closed, transition program assistance has ceased and VA cemetery grounds are not being maintained.
    Zac Anderson, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Past this point, plant growth will begin to cease, resulting in the same state in their crops as if a hard freeze has happened.
    Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Staff at The Free Press are eager to start working with CBS News; reporter Olivia Reingold appeared on CBS News Friday morning to discuss her report that anonymous NYPD officers had been threatening to quit the force if Zohran Mamdani is elected New York City mayor.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Apparently, many workers crash out and quit on the third Wednesday at the job.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Knockoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knockoff. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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