Johnny-come-lately

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Definition of Johnny-come-latelynext
as in me-tooer

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Recent Examples of Johnny-come-lately Here are impressions of the game from a Johnny-come-lately. — Michel A. Ibrahim, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2026 Sure those who spent the most and who’ve stayed the longest ought to receive more compensation than the Johnny-come-lately’s to the smarthome party? — Charles Radclyffe, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025 The Hood proudly stands as an outlier, no Johnny-come-lately to contemporary Native art. — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 Johnny-come-lately botnet sets a new record At 30,000 devices, the Eleven11bot was already exceptionally large (although some botnets exceed well over 100,000 devices). — Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2025
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  1. imitator
  2. follower
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
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  • The mom of two shares videos and photos of her fashion creations and her daughters wearing them with over 29,000 TikTok followers.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • In 1776, the year the Declaration of Independence was signed, Quakers made a formal stance against slavery, prohibiting followers of the faith from engaging in the institution.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Definition of follower

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