emulate

Example Sentences

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Impressed by the tireless activists he met online, he tried to emulate them, evangelizing and writing articles on Substack.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

It is striking that Webb frequently invoked U.S. shareholder rights as a model for Hong Kong to emulate, albeit an imperfect one.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Aspiring to emulate a talkshow host who has a reputation for being affable rather than for setting pulses racing is perhaps an unusual ambition for a gaming studio.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“With any kind of viral aesthetic: one of those books did well, so they engineered every cover to emulate that, because people were drawn to them,” says Cash.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Even Boughton, though, whose fairy opera The Immortal Hour opened at Glastonbury twenty-two days after the British Empire declared war on Germany in August 1914, didn’t emulate Wagner’s musical style.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall