emulative
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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016
His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is time to resume our anecdotes of foxhounds, and the following is a proof of the highPage 427 courage they so often display, as well as their emulative spirit.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse
The example of Machiavel, like that of all creative genius, influenced the character of his age, and his history of Florence produced an emulative spirit among a new dynasty of historians.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Girls at school vexed each other with emulative boasting: "We had fifty calls on New Year's Day."
From Reminiscences, 1819-1899 by Julia Ward Howe
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