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

School to him was such a delight, that in a spirit of emulative self-denial, he never started from home, a block away, until a minute before the tardy bell rang.

From Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight by Holt, Mathew Joseph

The Charles River between Boston and Charlestown was about as wide at the point where the old ferry crossed as was the Thames at London Bridge, and Americans were emulative of that structure.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse

His emulative practice of his art asks for a closer consideration than that usually given to it.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur