copyist
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Synonyms for copyist
Synonyms
aper, copycat, echo, follower, imitator, rubber stamp, wannabe (also wannabee)
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What that meant, Mr. Wollny said, was that Bach typically had to write a cantata in three days — from, say, Sunday afternoon to Wednesday morning — before turning it over to copyists to prepare the parts for rehearsal. — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, "What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach?," 22 June 2018 The Japanese are known as expert copyists, but don’t expect an exact facsimile of Western food. — Stan Parish, WSJ, "‘Go Beyond Sushi’: Tokyo’s Culinary Gems," 19 June 2018 The difference between a designer and a copyist is that a designer makes his source material into something else, something his own — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, "Dries Van Noten, Icon of Creative Freedom," 16 Oct. 2017 The name of the copyist was a student of Ibn Hajar’s, who had hastily scrawled the work down after hearing it aloud from the mouth of the author himself. — Joel Blecher, The Atlantic, "A Newly Discovered Manuscript and Its Lesson on Islam," 28 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'copyist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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