copycat
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She was impressed that the real Skye Prince was calling out the copycat accounts and that she insisted the beds would be free.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
MAK in Vienna also increased its security to prevent "copycat offenders and to provide our audience with visible security", its director says.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Godin's target of choice over the years was the flamboyant French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy, hit no fewer than eight times between 1985 and 2015, not counting copycat attacks by others around the world.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
But with what seems like a Ripper copycat on the loose, everyone needs to put aside their preconceived notions and figure out what’s going on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
John followed up like a bratty little sister playing copycat.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
In the process, private-label brands shook off their reputation as cheap copycats.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Going after Chinese copycats posed risks for Driscoll’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Both Brand and Ibrahim Bulut, a museum security expert from a Belgian security consulting firm, believe many thefts that followed the Louvre burglary are copycats.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The group also faces increased competition from copycats in supermarkets, as well as from rival Select, which claims to have invented the spritz in Venice in 1920.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
I had less than a minute before the copycats began.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
The Somerset-based brewer sued the supermarket chain over claims Aldi had "copycatted" its Cloudy Lemon Cider "in both taste and appearance".
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024
Every innovation is quickly copycatted, suddenly making it seem a lot less innovative.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
She even finds it difficult to appreciate her fashion sense, which has since been copycatted by many a Free People-loving millennial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2019
If anything, Krzyzewski has copycatted Calipari’s strategy of recruiting NBA-ready players who are only in college because NBA rules require that they spend a year in school before they’re drafted.
From Time ● Apr. 5, 2015
Politicians from both sides of the aisle have critically lauded it, and at least three other states have copycatted Georgia Work$.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2011
As for the burger wars, Saleh said there was some risk for further copycatting.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 25, 2025
Copyright law is well equipped to differentiate between slightly derivative human ingenuity and reductive copycatting.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2023
Critics attribute Brazil’s most recent flat Earth craze to poor public education, copycatting from abroad and to the increase in social media use.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 6, 2019
The familiar title aside, this miniseries produced by Mindy Kaling isn’t copycatting the original Richard Curtis romcom.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2019
Online ubiquity can also result in overexposure and copycatting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2014
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