apers

plural of aper
as in followers
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
  • Throughout the journey, Pfendler documented life alone at sea for hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, sharing the physical and mental challenges of crossing one of the world's largest oceans.
    Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026
  • His gift for lyrics that were both deeply humane and sharply critical has endured for generations, inspiring followers such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
    Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2026
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
Noun
  • There may be echoes of history on George’s first day.
    Erin Hill, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
  • Instead of a handheld probe sweeping across your skin, a ring of transducers surrounds the body underwater and fires sound waves from every angle at once, reconstructing a full 3D volume from the echoes.
    Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
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“Apers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apers. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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