imitating

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They sprang into action, “being vocal, agitating, militating, marching, doing all that great stuff,” Antoinette Coakley, one of the students, recalled recently.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2022

Lord Justice Popplewell stated "the factors militating against a prosecution in this case outweigh the factors in favour of a prosecution".

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2022

Roth: I think that goes to my point about 3D militating against precision.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2021

But there were forces militating against taking the plunge, even beyond his inhibitions.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

On the opposite side is a very celebrated painting, entitled the Church Militant and Triumphant; the militating and triumphing business being principally confided to the dogs of the Lord,—videlicet, Domini-canes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various