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parroting

noun as in mimicry

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This requires not just teaching to the test and not just parroting critiques.

Over there, “journalists,” such as they are, literally survive by parroting the government.

Some of what they said sounded like a rhetorical, if earnest, parroting of notions they'd heard from teachers.

They are parroting the old party line that always puts special interests ahead of the national interest.

Parroting another government line, the article raises the specter of a Russian intervention if postelection unrest flares.

One of my draft is killed and five wounded and here everyone is parroting about a Merry Christmas.

That statement was made and I think it was—he was probably parroting somebody else that made the statement previously.

Later he put it into Altrurian, and I memorized it, and made myself immensely popular by parroting it.

The mere intonation of words unaccompanied by a strict knowledge of "that dumb, silent language," Pantomime, is only parroting.

"My translator is working badly," the voice of the elder was parroting.

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On this page you'll find 83 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to parroting, such as: imitation, parallel, reflection, repetition, reverberation, and answer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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