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Recent Examples of parrot
The Editors, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
After parroting LaGuerta’s message about learning from our mistakes, Dex explains that he’s found the perfect tranquilizer and even has a convenient dosing chart to make sure to avoid any future accidents.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025
The latest New York news Image A war inside a Manhattan co-op: Noise complaints over shrieking parrots at an apartment building in Gramercy Park led to a $750,000 legal settlement and shattered a friendship.
—James Barron, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Verb
She’s made a habit of parroting Russian talking points about Syria, which is of a piece with her other bizarre strategic misjudgments.
—The Editors, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
After parroting LaGuerta’s message about learning from our mistakes, Dex explains that he’s found the perfect tranquilizer and even has a convenient dosing chart to make sure to avoid any future accidents.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
As guesses fly around the room—parrots, pythons, adopted children, and even beef brisket—the ladies are left trying to figure out what Toya could possibly be revealing.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Jan. 2025
The latest New York news Image A war inside a Manhattan co-op: Noise complaints over shrieking parrots at an apartment building in Gramercy Park led to a $750,000 legal settlement and shattered a friendship.
—James Barron, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parrot
Verb
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Duff, the bill’s co-sponsor, echoed this sentiment.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2025
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Only in the film’s final scene, when Mathis returns to the bedroom with her husband, does Tapia de Veer’s score introduce a second voice to the rhythmic panting: her desire echoed.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The strength of an ape, the speed of a cheetah, the comic timing of a grizzly bear, and so on.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2024
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Researchers studying a group of 20 of the captive apes sifted through more than 600 hours of footage looking for instances of urination.—
Collin Blinder,
science.org,
22 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The president also repeated a claim on Monday that the U.S. has given Ukraine $350 billion in aid.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Create your personal success system to repeat what works.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, Parliament has been reduced to what me and my party views as a rubber stamp for authoritarian policies.—
Imran Khan,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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Standing in Bove’s way, is Manhattan Federal Judge Dale E. Ho, whose judicial role is not to be a rubber stamp automatically granting this motion, and must consider if a dismissal of the indictment is warranted.—
Arnold Kriss,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Griffin quoted a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, from Christopher Miller, the Financial Times‘ Chief Correspondent in Kyiv.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
3 Mar. 2025
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Acting as Di Morabito’s alter ego, the robot led the show only after quoting from Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartu, an 1830s book theorizing fashion while reflecting on mankind’s loneliness.—
Giorgia Feroldi,
Vogue,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Makers of copycat weight-loss drugs and digital health companies that sell them are bracing for upheaval now that the Food and Drug Administration has declared Novo Nordisk's blockbusters Ozempic and Wegovy are no longer in shortage.—
Maya Goldman,
Axios,
24 Feb. 2025
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In 2022, over 109,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses, roughly 76,000 of which were caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl or its copycats.—
Gabrielle M. Etzel,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Hader, a household name in Austria for his work as a comedian on stage, won the best actor honor at the Locarno Film Festival for his role in Hold-Up in 2000.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
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Maybe there is something about this kind of family secret that fuels actors — the same thing happened to Jack Nicholson.—
Carolyn Kellogg,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Parrot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parrot. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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