Example Sentences

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RJ was parroting Roberts, who’d emphasized that players come and go but the team is always the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2023

YourTango was parroting a factoid that’s gained a chokehold over pop science in the past decade: that 25 marks the age at which our brains become “fully developed” or “mature.”

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2022

Speaking to reporters after his apology, Nunes ducked questions about whether he was parroting information given to him by the White House, saying only that he was “not going to ever reveal sources.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2017

I was parroting “conventional wisdom,” the political equivalent of talking about the weather.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2015

After the Edwardsville meeting I said to him that it was wonderful to me that he could find new things to say everywhere, while Douglas was parroting his popular sovereignty speech at every place.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.