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
Experts have told the BBC this is one of the first times they have seen copycat versions of an experimental drug, still in the throes of being tested, become so widely available.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
A group of musicians led by Jason Isbell is suing artificial-intelligence music platform Suno, alleging the company allows its users to generate copycat songs based on artists’ names without their permission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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
Quick versions can be made in minutes from a few seconds of audio, but high-quality copycats tend to require hours.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
But I also sensed from them a desire to be taken seriously as innovative contributors to the field—not copycats or free riders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 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 company sued the supermarket chain in 2022 over claims Aldi had "copycatted" its Cloudy Lemon Cider in "taste and appearance".
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
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
This physical copycatting is behind Ms. de Havilland’s right-of-publicity claim.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2018
