parroting

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 Eighty years of evidence, much of it the party’s own, shows cadres parroting the scripts given to them, performing the required contrition, and then reverting to their earlier behaviors the moment the campaign ends. Andrew Mertha, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2026 Warsh’s signature move as chairman has been to strip out forward guidance so that markets can price the economy as opposed to just parroting the Fed. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 July 2026 Instead, what really appears to be happening is yet another cautionary tale about AI digesting incorrect information and parroting it back to users uncritically. Frank Landymore, Futurism, 25 June 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 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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  • Toshpulodzoda is a snapshot of a situation that keeps repeating itself under Descano, a Washington Examiner review of cases found.
    Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Most pressure-sensitive adhesives are based on polymers, long chains of repeating molecular units that become entangled with one another.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026
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  • There is no noise of a breaking string echoing in the distance — the stage direction that pushed Chekhov’s final dramatic landscape toward Beckettian absurdism before Beckett was born.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Scrunching buttered phyllo sheets instead of layering them flat creates dramatic height and shatteringly crisp texture, echoing spanakopita while remaining unfussy.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2026
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  • The drag queen, Alyssa Edwards, responded on social media, thanking Talarico and quoting the Bible.
    Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Lee placed the partnership in the context of a broader argument about local content and global reach, quoting Martin Scorsese.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Parroting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parroting. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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