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imitate

[im-i-teyt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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She doesn’t imitate being the mother of the blues, as her character is known.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Then, Grossman was paired with Zoe Wohlfeld and instructed to imitate boiling milk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Unitree’s humanoid robots can walk, run and climb and “can imitate & reinforce the learning drive” said the company, referring to algorithms that train the robot’s artificial intelligence as it undertakes tasks.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

If an artificial "twin" requires greater complexity to imitate the behavior of a biological neuron, then the biological neuron itself has greater computational power.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026

No matter—you will not he able to imitate my skill.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

Researchers have created a hollow CdS@polydopamine nanoreactor that imitates two important features of living cells.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

“In Europa, you perform the same concert and the response is much more, how you say, restrained. In England it is”—he imitates a posh English accent—“ ‘That was really lovely, you know.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

While AI-generated music is rife online, it's often released under fictitious names, or imitates big stars, but it doesn't normally appear on their official streaming pages.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

The question/answer technique is slightly more difficult than echoing in that echoing merely imitates what the leader has done, and answering requires the creation of a different rhythm.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Coltrane singlehandedly made the soprano saxophone the popular jazz instrument it is today, exceeding Sonny Rollins’s influence on tenor saxophone and replacing Charlie Parker as jazz’s most imitated saxophone player.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

Koffi imitated the gesture as well as she could remember, placing her overlapping hands in the center of Ekon’s chest.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

"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

The second is that a machine can demonstrate intelligence by successfully imitating a human in conversation, an idea that later became known as the Turing test.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026

The song would only become even more synonymous with the president in 2022, when his hokey dance often done to the classic became so viral that athletes around the world began imitating it.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

Edwin curled his arms over his head imitating a whale’s head and began to pace around the fire, dipping his head up and down as if breaking through the waves.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen




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