as in imitative
using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model
critics faulted the novel for having a painfully unoriginal plot
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Meta, for example, prohibits users from sharing unoriginal or infringing content.
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Veronica Ramirez, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Cop and robber party together, share their pained back stories and unoriginal jokes about French cuisine and evade a local police squad known as Pantera.
—Robert Daniels, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Dell may be making its laptop names boring and unoriginal, but the new Dell Pro 14 Premium is keeping things exciting with the addition of a punchy tandem OLED display.
—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
For the rest of us, though, the main lesson of Mufasa is a far less generative one: Even the most talented director can’t make someone else’s unoriginal idea shine.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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Veronica Ramirez, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Cop and robber party together, share their pained back stories and unoriginal jokes about French cuisine and evade a local police squad known as Pantera.
—Robert Daniels, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
Dell may be making its laptop names boring and unoriginal, but the new Dell Pro 14 Premium is keeping things exciting with the addition of a punchy tandem OLED display.
—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 6 Jan. 2025
For the rest of us, though, the main lesson of Mufasa is a far less generative one: Even the most talented director can’t make someone else’s unoriginal idea shine.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Unoriginal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unoriginal. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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