imitative
Example Sentences
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That was great advice because it was a book that I’d written very much out of imitative aspiration, imitating Joyce and Hemingway.
Aristotle understood that human beings are an imitative animal.
From Los Angeles Times
“I didn’t want to do a movie that was imitative of something else.”
From Los Angeles Times
Mulligan is so good here that she lays bare some of her co-star’s more studied artifice, including a few overly imitative Bernstein-isms and some affectedly nasal vocal delivery.
From Los Angeles Times
The research also details potential breakthroughs in specific areas, including pump-jet propulsion and internal quieting devices, based on "imitative innovation" of Russian technology.
From Reuters
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