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imitate

[im-i-teyt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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Because synthetic rotation can imitate motion beyond the speed of light, researchers now have a controlled laboratory platform for exploring physical regimes that would otherwise be impossible to study directly.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

Am I supposed to watch myself and imitate myself?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

"I was trying to imitate players - like you do when you're a kid. Now I'm here winning matches. It's awesome."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

On the call with shareholders this past Monday, Sankar appeared to take a jab at those efforts, saying the labs were trying to imitate Palantir.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

We try to imitate girls we see in the human world, girls in magazines, girls we see on movie screens in air-conditioned theaters, eating candy so sweet it makes my teeth ache.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

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

He smiles and imitates my voice: “The trampoline park is going to be nuts.”

From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner

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

Perhaps it is because he treated the Shingle Style not as a historic revival, whose forms he faithfully imitated, but as a living language.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

Although examples exist in the United States, the architectural design originated in ancient Rome and was broadly imitated in later European monuments.

From Salon Nov. 5, 2025

She spoke it to them when their father was out of the tent, but they imitated her with senseless singsong words and laughed.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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

“We are not imitating; we are a model to others,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

AI might do a good job at imitating language.

From Salon Mar. 30, 2026

I was imitating this particular warrior to make fun of him.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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