parrots 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of parrot
as in echoes
to say after another the toddler parroted everything her father said, often to the latter's embarrassment

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parrots

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noun

plural of parrot

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Recent Examples of parrots
Noun
And anyone who might have doubts tends to get drowned out by a torrent of early media coverage, which usually parrots the official announcement. F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
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  • This process repeats roughly a dozen times each day, with some trucks transporting grain or fertilizer to customers in Illinois and Minnesota.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The engine's cylinder set repeats the process continuously to create the mechanical energy powering the propeller or driveshaft.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Dan Marino quotes lining the walls of Hard Rock Stadium fascinated the AD.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Hell, there’s an entire TikTok channel that just features a guy reading different Bourdain quotes over travel montages and, sometimes, Bourdain clip shows.
    Tres Dean, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Americans' primary oversight entities—rather than rooting out waste and misconduct—now are poised to be rubber stamps for whatever administration is in power.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Worries are particularly high about companies in the artificial-intelligence industry, where pessimists see echoes of the 2000 dot-com bubble that imploded.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Through his phone, Ron holds a portal into the unknown; a void filled with sporadic echoes and ostensible connections.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The $5 pastry prompted lengthy lines of people longing for a taste, as well as copycats and other Franken-foods.
    Merrill Fabry, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The league, of course, is full of copycats, meaning that opposing offenses will clearly try to capitalize on the Miami’s inability to stop the run.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • Alaska, Hawaiian are consistent performers The AQR also singled out Alaska Airlines as the steadiest performer in the industry.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
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  • Bernie Mac, who starred in the Ocean's trilogy as fast-talking Frank Catton and was revered as one of the funniest comic actors of the last half-century, died at 50 due to cardiac arrest just a year after Ocean's 13 premiered.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For Everyset, a longterm goal is an additional fundraise to expand beyond background actors to start competing as a full-service payroll firm specializing in short-term W-2.
    Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Parrots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parrots. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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