copycat
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Education minister Sonny Angara said the government was "very concerned", adding: "We don't want a situation seen in the United States, where there have been concerns about copycat incidents."
From BBC ● Jun. 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
He told Miles, the author, that Berkshire’s stock price could drop whenever Jain announces his retirement, and that shareholders shouldn’t expect him to be a copycat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
A 2017 report by Kenya's National Crime Research Centre blamed exam stress and long school terms and said students in different schools were communicating via smuggled phones, leading to copycat acts.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
Sandi also raises her hand like a copycat and tells Yoyo and Fifi to raise their hands too.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
Perhaps the same will be true with “Obsession”; Curry Barker’s copycats will try and fail to interpret the trials of dating when personality is a facade, and I’ll be left eating crow.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The second threat is from open-weight model makers and copycats finding ways to mimic the performance of the leading models at a fraction of the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Those copycats up north aren’t going to be stealing this one,” said Spiegel, as the crowd erupted into applause and laughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 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
The familiar title aside, this miniseries produced by Mindy Kaling isn’t copycatting the original Richard Curtis romcom.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2019
“Ask the people at Snapchat about the Kumbaya stuff at Facebook,” said Taplin, referring to the relentless cloning and copycatting of the smaller competitor’s features to the point where it is now financially struggling.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2017
Online ubiquity can also result in overexposure and copycatting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2014
