Thesaurus results for PARROTING

parroting

verb

present participle of parrot

as in repeating

to say after another the toddler parroted everything her father said, often to the latter's embarrassment

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Recent Examples of parroting Fans, some of them little kids parroting what their parents were saying, called him vile names. —

Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026 Students’ greatest skills are now parroting pre-formulated slogans and protesting on immigration enforcement, gender ideology, race, foreign policy, or the Supreme Court long before they have been taught the intellectual discipline necessary to evaluate any of those issues seriously. —

Courtney Corbello, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026 In mid-2025, when mainstream analyst firms were still parroting uncritical AI hype before investor sentiment turned cold in December, the number of US AI users who regularly paid for the privilege stood at a whopping 3 percent. —

Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 25 Feb. 2026 This could be because the leader themselves is emotionally reactive and people are just parroting what is modeled, or because there are no ground rules for conversations and no consequences given for lashing out. —

Blair Glaser, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026 So the dollar will remain the world’s monetary hub, while the doomsters continue parroting the same old nonsense. —

Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026 When Russia, another strategic partner, invaded Ukraine in 2022, China stopped short of condemning Moscow or opposing the war, instead parroting Russian narrative of blaming on the United States and its NATO allies for provoking the conflict. —

Steven Jiang, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026 Advertisement Witkoff was criticized early on by Zelensky and others for allegedly parroting Russian talking points and even relying during diplomatic talks on the Kremlin’s Russian language interpreter. —

Chad De Guzman, Time, 26 Nov. 2025 So usually what students just end up doing is sort of parroting whatever the professor says for the sake of the grade. —

Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025

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In an era when major cruise lines usually build ships in recognizable classes, repeating and refining a successful design across several vessels, that alone makes Epic unusual.

— David Nikel, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
In Nazi Germany, trans people were some of the first people who were attacked, and history is repeating.

— Grace Byron, New Yorker, 14 June 2026