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personator

noun

Definition of personator

as in performer

a person who imitates another's voice and mannerisms for comic effect the science museum hired an Albert Einstein personator to greet guests for its special exhibit on the scientist

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Noun

Van der Velden envisions Tilly not as a single fictional character but as a performer who could appear in anything from a costume drama to a monster movie to a music video.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
Big Boo actress Lea DeLaria is a standup comedian with a long history as a Broadway performer.

— Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 11 July 2026

Definition of performer

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Luckily for all the parents who want to balance constant play with the occasional break from full-time entertainer duties, the CoComelon YouTube channel uploads new videos every week.

— Parents, Parents, 10 July 2026
Instead, Hargitay learned at age 30 that her bio-dad was Italian entertainer Nelson Sardelli — Giovanna Sardelli’s father — with whom Mansfield had a brief relationship while separated from Mickey Hargitay in the early 1960s.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 6 July 2026

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The black and white photographs work especially well hung just a wall away from the Impressionists, many of who also work in black and white and concentrate on the slightest shadows.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 May 2026
My first visit was in 1995 for a retrospective of 19th century Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte.

— David Allen, Daily News, 23 Apr. 2026

Definition of impressionist

Noun

But the arrival of Buc-ee's supercharged the trend and spawned imitators like Wally's, which has three 50,000-square-foot locations in the Midwest, with plans for more.

— Kevin Williams, CNBC, 2 July 2026
The frontier labs keep shipping the next capability while the imitators are still training on the last one, and the value keeps accruing to whoever is ahead rather than to whoever copied the leader's previous answers.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

Definition of imitator

Noun

Kevin Nealon plays Happy’s overly positive AT&T Open partner Gary Potter, who comes off as more of an eccentric self-help guru impersonator than a pro golfer.

— Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026
Congo fans helped pack out The Stadium Usually Known as Mercedes-Benz on Saturday (even without their beloved Patrice Lumumba impersonator).

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 29 June 2026

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