copy·cat
ˈkä-pē-ˌkat 
often attributive
1
: one who imitates or adopts the behavior or practices of another
2
: an imitative act or product
copycat board games
copycatted; copycatting
: to act as a copycat
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Examples of copycat in a Sentence
Noun
She called me a copycat for wearing the same dress.
every rock singer who makes it big soon has a whole cluster of copycats
Verb
asked her stylist to copycat a hairstyle from the magazine
a performer who slavishly copycats another never rises to the level of true stardom
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
No one expected the first Joker to go wild in its opening; there was a fear at the time that there would be Dark Knight Rises copycat shootings.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
And that applies to fashion design, decor, and even to the travel industry, where there’s a real tendency to copycat successful ideas.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
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Noun
Experts estimate that hundreds of thousands of Americans have used copycat versions of Lilly’s medicines or similar shots from Novo Nordisk A/S, which have also been in short supply.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
No one expected the first Joker to go wild in its opening; there was a fear at the time that there would be Dark Knight Rises copycat shootings.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024
Verb
North Korea famously hacked the pharmaceutical company Pfizer in an attempt to steal its COVID-19 vaccine technology, and Chinese exfiltrations of U.S. defense industrial base research has led to copycat technological advances in aircraft and missile development.
—Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021
And that applies to fashion design, decor, and even to the travel industry, where there’s a real tendency to copycat successful ideas.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
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“Copycat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copycat. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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