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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

Researchers also use sophisticated computational techniques to distinguish different kinds of particle interactions and reject events that imitate the signatures expected from dark matter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

“AI should help people create something new, not imitate someone else’s work,” Suno Chief Executive Mikey Shulman said in a blog post on the company’s website in August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

I loved to imitate them, even though I didn’t know what they were saying.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

The lawsuit says the song imitates “Isbell’s characteristic clear male vocals and country twang.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

Herrmann’s orchestra imitates a swing band’s jazzy rhythms and brassy sound.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

“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

His drip painting technique is one the art world's most recognisable and often imitated.

From BBC ● May 19, 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

Elinor imitated them: “‘Oh yes, what was that again, Signora Loredan?

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Most of the porcelain was made for the European market, underscoring a subtext of cross-fertilization, already stated by Islamic ceramics imitating Chinese blue and white.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

He learned to stop imitating his favorite writers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

“Exzactle the same height,” said Francie, imitating Mr. Seigler.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith




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