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a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way
they're just no-talent apers of whatever rock band has the current number one record
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Noun
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That makes sense, given she's used to broadcasting snippets of her life to her more than 7 million TikTok followers and nearly 4 million on Instagram.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026 -
Lifestyle influencer and DadToker Mortensen has become a social media influencer, with about 830,000 followers on TikTok and 290,000 followers on Instagram.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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For decades, Gallup’s company and its imitators improved their techniques.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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Along the way, the festival has outlasted many imitators and weathered shifting food trends by staying nimble.—
Peter Burke,
FOXNews.com,
21 Feb. 2026
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Leo’s election has echoes of that of Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian to be chosen in 450 years and the first from Poland, who became pontiff at the height of the Cold War in 1978.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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These echoes of dance music’s past inject new life into the 25-year-old British artist’s soft-spoken oeuvre.—
Aimee Cliff,
Pitchfork,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Apers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apers. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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