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ape

verb as in mimic

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Occasionally a brave ape will point out that the company is diluting its shareholders’ interest by issuing so many shares.

From Slate

One way of tackling the workforce deficit, he says, is to ape the kind of economic model implemented by Japan, which has a similarly low birth rate, by investing heavily in algorithms and machines.

From BBC

Though caretakers had set up a cozy space filled with hammocks and blankets for the chimpanzee, upon arrival at his new home — an ape sanctuary on Florida’s Treasure Coast — he eschewed this private room.

The animal rights organization was alerted to Tonka’s whereabouts by the “Chimp Crazy” producers, who feared Tonia Haddix was going to euthanize the ape.

This was, after all, an animal she referred to as a “humanzee” — an ape who had spent his youth performing in Hollywood films like “Buddy” and “George of the Jungle.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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