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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
copycat .
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Examples
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Since it is now known that Harvard professors have plagiarized, copycatted, and pretty certainly have had stuff ghostwritten for them, the bona fides and reputations of nearly everyone at Harvard is called into question, especially people in the law school.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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There's a reason the practice was copycatted: Borg won five straight at the All-England Club.
A Rivalry Renewed—Over Drinks Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Since it is now known that Harvard professors have plagiarized, copycatted, and pretty certainly have had stuff ghostwritten for them, the bona fides and reputations of nearly everyone at Harvard is called into question, especially people in the law school.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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But its bid will be severely handicapped if the Arizona statute remains undisturbed or is copycatted by sister state jurisdictions.
Bruce Fein: No Repeal in Arizona, No World Cup Bruce Fein 2010
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Until reality hit her like a freight train 5 years ago, they had copycatted the widespread mantra of 'shopping til you drop'.
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Maybe if they'd also copycatted a Pratt & Whitney or GE engine design, EADS would actually have a flying aircraft, instead of a hanger queen test prototype with empty engine nacelles.
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And why couldn't Scott Peterson have done the same thing and copycatted the other one, the other killer?
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Soneji had actually copycatted the McDonald's shootings a few years earlier.
Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997
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Then he copycatted an earlier attack Soneji had made at the house.
Cat & Mouse Patterson, James 1997
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Because beasts don't talk with words, they talk with sounds, and I copycatted my language from beasts and birds, '
The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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