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Recent Examples of parrot
Megan Ross, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
That includes humans and parrots, which are able to spontaneously keep a beat.
—Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Rob Picheta, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
And Trump and his senior officials repeatedly parroted Russian disinformation about the conflict, including by blaming it on Kyiv.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Now, hundreds of parrots live in the wild — but their future is fragile.
—Megan Ross, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
That includes humans and parrots, which are able to spontaneously keep a beat.
—Gennaro Tomma, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
Many still cannot understand why US President Donald Trump has turned so furiously on Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, parroting the vitriolic disinformation usually heard from the Kremlin.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
And Trump and his senior officials repeatedly parroted Russian disinformation about the conflict, including by blaming it on Kyiv.
—Alexander Gabuev, Foreign Affairs, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parrot
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Manhunt Enters Second Day (Live Updates) Change Your Gmail Password Now, Google Tells 2 Billion Users This theme is echoed in Morgan Stanley’s report, which identifies the presence of a family mission statement as the single most important predictor of long-term success across generations.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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Families with younger children came out to join, and many echoed the need to focus and teach their kids about their rights.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 June 2025
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Still socializing seems really important to the apes, as emphasized by the new findings.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
25 June 2025
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Yes, after the events of the very, very old Donkey Kong arcade game, Mario has the ape cruelly imprisoned like the villain from King Kong.—
Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
18 June 2025
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Trump has repeated long-standing accusations that the Biden White House relied on an autopen to sign presidential pardons, executive orders and other key documents, claiming that its use cast doubt on their validity.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 June 2025
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This would be repeated often during the match: in a stoppage for a blow to Federico Valverde to talk to Bellingham, in the breaks for hydration to help other players or with Tchouameni during the process of reviewing a penalty decision.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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The Committee will no longer function as a rubber stamp for industry profit-taking agendas.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
9 June 2025
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In the past, the White House has generally approved disaster reimbursements to states, and the Homeland Security secretary has largely functioned as a rubber stamp.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
30 May 2025
Verb
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Several political leaders have been quoted as to the president’s declining mental condition the last two years of his term.—
Robert Glatter,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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The fact that memorization was a much bigger problem for the most popular books does suggest that Llama may have been trained on secondary sources that quote these books rather than the books themselves.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 June 2025
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From employees who have been wronged by their boss to restaurateurs defending their livelihoods from copycats, competing culinary pros put their favorite knives, and egos, on the line in a bid to put old scores to bed.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
26 June 2025
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There were a few copycats in the industry offering a similar technique.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2025
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The connection between the two actors as performers happened straight away.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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But Lee—a veteran actor with over three decades of success starring in numerous Korean blockbusters like Sandglass, New World and the Along with the Gods franchise—knew to trust his gut.—
Regina Kim,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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“Parrot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parrot. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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