as in imitators
a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way
every rock singer who makes it big soon has a whole cluster of copycats
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as in copies
to make an exact likeness of
asked her stylist to copycat a hairstyle from the magazine
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as in imitates
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior
a performer who slavishly copycats another never rises to the level of true stardom
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Recent Examples of copycats
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
The film spawned a host of copycats, but that's not surprising given its incredible success, including an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
John Monaghan, also warning the sewer visitors and their potential copycats.
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David K. Li,
NBC news,
2 June 2026
Tung Tung Tung Sahur has spawned legions of copycats and spinoffs.
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New York Times,
1 June 2026
The copycats aren't the only ones showing up to pay their respects.
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Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
Creator denounces copycats The trend is largely credited to a TikTok video posted in March by an anonymous creator called Swhileyy.
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Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
What real cookbook authors say about AI copycats.
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Laurie Ochoa,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
That Serial season was downloaded more than 300 million times, and its success spawned thousands of copycats and a vast community of true-crime fans.
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The Week Us,
TheWeek,
4 May 2026
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Apollo’s early-2010s bet on its insurer Athene spawned a decade of copycats, and over the past few years most big alternative asset managers have either bought a life-insurance company or launched dedicated businesses to manage their money.
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Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
The film spawned a host of copycats, but that's not surprising given its incredible success, including an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
John Monaghan, also warning the sewer visitors and their potential copycats.
—
David K. Li,
NBC news,
2 June 2026
Tung Tung Tung Sahur has spawned legions of copycats and spinoffs.
—
New York Times,
1 June 2026
The copycats aren't the only ones showing up to pay their respects.
—
Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
Creator denounces copycats The trend is largely credited to a TikTok video posted in March by an anonymous creator called Swhileyy.
—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
What real cookbook authors say about AI copycats.
—
Laurie Ochoa,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
That Serial season was downloaded more than 300 million times, and its success spawned thousands of copycats and a vast community of true-crime fans.
—
The Week Us,
TheWeek,
4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for copycats
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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.
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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.
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The technology copies tone, speech patterns, and accents closely enough that many people can't tell the difference between a real voice and a fake one.
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The logic behind the format essentially copies what Spotify has done with podcasts, which is shorter listens leading to longer-form engagement over time.
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The undulating roofline imitates the Allegheny Mountains, and 38 steel columns create a canopy reminiscent of the region's forests, Prix Versailles says.
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My mother imitates me, then converts the word into a pair of Korean syllables that sound most like the German.
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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.
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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.
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Unlike conventional gaming headsets that primarily separate audio into left and right channels, Spherephones reproduces sound from above, below, behind, and in front of the user.
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The smart glasses come equipped with a proprietary liquid-crystal-on-silicon display that reproduces 16 million colors and offers a 51° field of view.
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Like many performance EVs attempting to address the absence of combustion-engine noise, Genesis has also developed a bespoke electric Active Sound Design system to create a soundtrack that emulates an ICE vehicle.
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Virgin with Codex emulates the original painting’s translucent hair.
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There may be echoes of history on George’s first day.
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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.
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The river guides become the architects of a system that replicates their judgment at scale.
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Named the SpiderCam, the prototype from Northwestern University replicates the manner in which the spiders' eyes allow the creatures to gauge distances before making a surprise sideways jump at some unsuspecting victim minding its own business.
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“Copycats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copycats. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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