parrot
noun
any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
were parroting
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past progressiveof parrot.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He also suggested the other candidates were parroting his ideas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
Many of the accounts didn’t follow the feminists they were parroting or even the tastemakers of Black Twitter, like Desus and Mero.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2019
They were not just expressing their own angst; they were parroting a world-despair and a death-fascination that lay at the heart of contemporary French rap.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2017
Soon others were parroting and expanding Buffon’s theory of New World degeneracy.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2012
