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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

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

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, Bentley addressed the challenge of luxury-EV sound by getting musicians to imitate the rumble of its V8 engines using traditional Western percussion instruments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

They engineered carefully controlled porous materials that imitate the way natural foams scatter light while also drawing inspiration from water-repellent surfaces found on leaves and flower petals.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

He must examine the reasons for their victories and for their defeats, in order to avoid the latter and to imitate the former.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

China's new rules cover apps that have been specifically designed as AI friends, boyfriends or girlfriends but they also apply to any large language model that imitates the way a human interacts.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

The hopefuls included the daughter of late autocrat Alberto Fujimori, a comedian who imitates his rivals, a fugitive, and a business magnate who has adopted the nickname Porky because of his chubby face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

For example, a leader begins by miming actions such as teeth brushing, bouncing a ball, or eating food from a bowl, and the group imitates them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

“So many of Flynn’s films are supposedly his life being imitated in art, and that was kind of like the last instance of that, in a very sordid way,” O’Brien said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He entertained mass audiences so successfully that his murder mysteries, spy sagas and innocent-man-accused tales became their own genre: the Alfred Hitchcock Movie, often imitated but never equaled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The fakes imitated brands like Bvlgari, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, and Tiffany & Co, and generated an estimated $1.14m in illicit profits for the counterfeit syndicate.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

That strategy was imitated across industries, making complex goods affordable and helping establish the modern middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Neel had never heard tigers firsthand, only people who had imitated them, but he tried calling to the cub with a low chuffing noise.

From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins

Of particular significance to San Francisco 49ers fullback Juszczyk and Dallas Cowboys tight end Ferguson is this sentence: “Recent celebrations imitating drinking a beverage will not be considered violations or result in discipline.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Barnett, 41, returned to Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday morning, explaining she had been absent in recent weeks because she was in hospital "in a case of life imitating work".

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

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

“This is your moment to shine, Zoey Pichardo,” she says, leaping onto the couch and imitating Ms. Washington.

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




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