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imitate

[im-i-tayt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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"I don't want to imitate him but I try to resemble him," she said of her uncle.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Quantum simulators are especially useful for this kind of work because researchers can precisely control them and program them to imitate physical processes that occur at atomic and subatomic scales.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“The goal shouldn’t be to simply imitate traditional film or television,” said von Schwarz.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

You’re trying to communicate something to a group that doesn’t want you to communicate to them, but, instead, wants you to simply imitate or channel angsty teenage feelings—that’s really childish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

“It was so funny to watch the fairies imitate the music. They still play those old songs sometimes.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

We’ll all find out together if, with the original stock market superstition, life actually imitates art.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

Instead of copying part of a virus or bacterium, this new vaccine imitates the communication signals immune cells exchange during infection.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

The scene she depicts even imitates her real life: Kahlo actually kept a smaller, papier-mâché skeleton atop her own canopy bed in Mexico City as a reassuring symbol of death’s ubiquity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The company further alleges that Trader Joe’s version imitates the packaging and colors on the boxes of Uncrustables.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

Terese is impressified with Zola and imitates the way Zola stands, the way she holds her head and moves her arms.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

Life imitated art for Cyrus, who became a global pop star off the back of the show's success.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Life imitated art when, in 2019, Van Der Beek fulfilled the prophecy foretold by a “Don’t Trust the B—” storyline and became a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

Often imitated, never duplicated, a ring from Spinelli Kilcollin is both classic and subversive enough to be interesting for decades to come.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

Others quickly imitated the language in that post to claim that brands including Oatly oat milk, Southwest Airlines, Tesla, Louis Vuitton, Domino’s Pizza, Toyota, E.l.f.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

I watched her carefully and imitated her walk, and when I did I found that I was no longer lost in the enormous landscape of hills and sky.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

"Triple threat. Go big or go home. Life imitating art."

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Mr. Daniels, remodeled with heavy hair and makeup, still only vaguely resembles his subject, though he does have an endearing way of imitating Reagan’s tendency to tilt his head this way and that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Later in the game, Cleveland’s José Ramírez was seen in the dugout apparently imitating Yan’s airborne style of rejoicing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

According to the study, this is the first documented case of a spider imitating a parasitic fungus that infects other spiders.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

I tried watching and imitating what you did, but it took me forever just to string a few beads.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman




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