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Recent Examples of parrots
Verb
And anyone who might have doubts tends to get drowned out by a torrent of early media coverage, which usually parrots the official announcement.—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
Americans' primary oversight entities—rather than rooting out waste and misconduct—now are poised to be rubber stamps for whatever administration is in power.
The article quotes two current professors but doesn’t explore why other faculty members critical of the school were too frightened to speak on the record in what Corcoran described as a campus finally open to different opinions.
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Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
Leapmotor quotes a 450-mile range on the WLTP cycle, which is always a little generous, so figure closer to 375 miles under the EPA protocol.
The actors were nearly unrecognizable filming their upcoming series based on the lives of the famed magicians in Los Angeles.
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Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
Such is the secrecy behind Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-part biopic about the Beatles that the actors aren’t allowed to take hard copies of the scripts beyond the set.