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[im-i-teyt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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Even with Kennedy looming over the counter more than sous-cheffing beside it, “The Real Food Show” briefly becomes the cooking program it has been dressed to imitate.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

It may also offer new insights into wound healing, medical treatments, and the design of biomaterials that imitate or interact with biological tissue.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 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

And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

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

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

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

“Sopranos” creator David Chase ran all those rules through the meat grinder at Satriale’s, and in the process made the most imitated show since “I Love Lucy.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 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

Guardiola is seen as changing the face of English football with a style of play that has been imitated by other managers across the country.

From BBC Nov. 7, 2025

Everything the dog did, he imitated, flopping down at last with his tongue lolling out.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

In her studio, surrounded by shelves of porcelain figures she recovered from Altadena and refired, she fashions whimsical sculptures imitating feminine figures and feline forms.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 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

He suggested imitating Europe’s generous wage replacement programs and job protections.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

The thing about Spirit that makes it complicated is that the network carriers started imitating the business model of Spirit and the other ultra-low-cost carriers through basic economy fares.

From Slate May 5, 2026

Jenkins started imitating the sergeant, and he had his voice down perfectly.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers




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