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Recent Examples of parrots
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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
Americans' primary oversight entities—rather than rooting out waste and misconduct—now are poised to be rubber stamps for whatever administration is in power.
That, too, had echoes of last season, when City, the reigning champions, lost their way completely after a promising start, winning just one match out of 13 in all competitions between late October and late December.
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Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
Ditto the echoes of The Civil War, also examining a battle that pit brother against brother, and The Vietnam War, in which America became the occupying imperial force failing to understand or successfully combat a domestic insurgence.
Novo Nordisk helped establish the market, but is losing market share to Eli Lilly and cheaper copycats and struggling to impress investors with its drug pipeline.
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Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
The two horror classics were made five years apart (1973 and 1978), and launched a bloody string of sequels and copycats.
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Keith Sharon,
Nashville Tennessean,
30 Oct. 2025
It was acquired as a limited series by Amazon; production was delayed by the pandemic, which gave the actors who made up the band—fronted by Riley Keough, granddaughter of Elvis Presley, as Daisy—time to bond and feel more like a real group by the time the show aired in 2023.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
All are interested, too, in bringing influencers on board as actors or creatives to broaden their appeal.
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