copycatted

past tense of copycat
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as in imitated
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior a performer who slavishly copycats another never rises to the level of true stardom

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copycatted
Verb
  • The indictment also alleges F-9 broke into the National Alliance’s West Virginia headquarters in 2014, stole approximately 25 boxes of records, brought them to North Carolina to be copied, and then returned the originals.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026
  • However, the scammer had copied it from an earlier property listing.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Still, Nixon created a blueprint for presidential lawlessness that Trump imitated and greatly expanded.
    Elizabeth Holtzman, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The University of Chicago, University of Illinois and Columbia University soon imitated this approach.
    Austin Sarat, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • Numerical simulations reproduced the experimental results and indicated that nonreciprocal pair propulsion is the minimal mechanism needed to sustain the unusual cluster dynamics.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Your god-classes and workarounds become its conventions, reproduced fluently in every new file.
    Evan J. Schwartz, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Liccardo pitched the framework as a legislative model that could be emulated across levels of local government in the Bay Area to create region-wide protection against potential ICE facilities.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Although other programs popped up about the same time around the country, Tulsa's is recognized as a model and has been widely emulated.
    Scott Neuman, NPR, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • Bryan Schreier, a partner at Sequoia (which led Zum’s 2017 Series A), says another of Zum’s big value propositions is that it cannot be replicated by an Uber, Lyft or even OpenAI.
    Maggie McGrath, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Everything the city has done, transit activists say, can be replicated elsewhere.
    Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In practice, puzzling choices by curators Klaus Biesenbach and Maike Steinkamp rendered the experiment fraught in places.
    Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • They might be rendered obsolete in a few years, especially with breakthroughs in technology like drones of various sizes and capabilities.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2026
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“Copycatted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copycatted. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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