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Recent Examples of parrot
Verb
The article parroted talking points on rising student enrollment but not the hiring of a student retention officer to try and keep students from leaving.—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026 So usually what students just end up doing is sort of parroting whatever the professor says for the sake of the grade.—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
And this June, 11 people were indicted in the Taiwan Strait’s Matsu Islands in connection with allegedly smuggling more than 4,500 parrot eggs to China.—Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025 Three cats and a parrot were rescued from the fire, but one died, according to West Metro Fire Rescue.—Austen Erblat, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parrot
Yet Ben, as a slasher, represents a minor triumph of practical effects (he’s played by Miguel Torres Umba in an ape suit).
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2026
While our ape ancestors might well have been consuming naturally fermented alcohol for millions of years, only humans, with our powers of logical inference, have been able to refine the process.
Welfare advocates, long highly critical of the San Jose animal shelter, are warning of a potential legal fight if the agency fails to improve animal care — accusing the city of neglect, gross negligence and repeating violations of state law.
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Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2026
History suggests that without robust organization, protest cycles repeat fruitlessly—or worse, create openings for intervention or authoritarian alternatives.
That was obvious in Palm Beach County when county commissioners were poised last month to rubber stamp a data center complex roughly the size of 150 football fields.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
Not the president, certainly not the Supreme Court, that is his biggest rubber stamp.
Johnson, a 54-year-old entertainer who hosts gospel brunches and soul nights in Inglewood according to his social media, did not respond to messages or a letter left at his home.
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Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2026
Over the course of 120 shows, the entertainer’s gross ticket sales topped more than $100 million.
The 30-year-old from Venezuela pitched out of the bullpen early on but has been a steady performer and mostly a reliable winner since moving into the rotation exclusively in 2022.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Jan. 2026
The episode is the first of the new year, returning from the holiday break with A$AP Rocky in his debut as an SNL musical performer.