emulative

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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2016

His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Admirable and emulative the beauty of it passed into a proverb:—“C’est beau comme le Cid.”

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

But it is time to resume our anecdotes of foxhounds, and the following is a proof of the highPage 427 courage they so often display, as well as their emulative spirit.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Jesse, Edward

Goethe grasped antiquity in the right way · invariably with an emulative soul.

From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)