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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
The Dan Marino quotes lining the walls of Hard Rock Stadium fascinated the AD.
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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.
Americans' primary oversight entities—rather than rooting out waste and misconduct—now are poised to be rubber stamps for whatever administration is in power.
Storms, on the other hand, usually show more irregular shapes, often with strong echoes and rapid changes in intensity, and are accompanied by other weather signals like clouds, lightning and precipitation.
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Brandi D. Addison,
Nashville Tennessean,
26 Sep. 2025
Geppert feels there are echoes of the Nazism that once took over her native land now playing out in the United States.
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.
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Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
Major Silicon Valley acquisitions have a way of shaping the future of our technological experiences, both because a successful deal inspires copycats and because the acquiring company has an incentive to make its investment appear worthwhile.
Astin’s remarks come after a formal condemnation of Norwood from SAG-AFTRA, as well as outcry from dozens of actors, including Emily Blunt, Melissa Barrera, Lukas Gage and more.
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Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
The feature, based on the 2016 novel by Ruth Ware, has all the ingredients of the perfect midweek movie, a delicious cast full of classy Brit actors, a dollop of mystery and a scrumptious 1 hour and 30 minute runtime.
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