imitate
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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
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
Caroline had begun to imitate Betty Jean’s singing of “O Holy Night.”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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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
“Just the way he says your name. It’s like Mee-ia,” Kimberly imitates in a singsong voice.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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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
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
TikTok said its guidelines do not allow content that "shows or promotes dangerous activities" or which are "likely to be imitated and that could cause significant physical harm".
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
Others quickly imitated the language in that post to claim that brands including Oatly oat milk, Southwest Airlines, Tesla, Louis Vuitton, Domino’s Pizza, Toyota, E.l.f.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
She imitated Beto’s excitement when he’d opened the gift.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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"Triple threat. Go big or go home. Life imitating art."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Come on, play something,’” Hopkins said, imitating the wince he gave Fenton at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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
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
It took me a moment to realize she was imitating me.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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