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imitate

[im-i-teyt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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Machairaki plans to develop more advanced organoids that contain immune cells and vascular-like networks that imitate blood vessels.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

Am I supposed to watch myself and imitate myself?

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

"I was trying to imitate players - like you do when you're a kid. Now I'm here winning matches. It's awesome."

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

These electronically damped wheeled selectors offer three axes of input, using microtorque feedback to imitate the bump and tug of physical detents.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

They’d even made him imitate the different patterns of the bells.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

On a recent test in Poland, a Polish air-defense crew flew a Merops at a target that imitates Shaheds but it missed.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

Michael Bay said last year the tech "will create a whole bunch of lazy people" because "it doesn't create, it just imitates".

From BBC Sep. 25, 2024

Terese is impressified with Zola and imitates the way Zola stands, the way she holds her head and moves her arms.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

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

Ms. Greene is, in every sense, a singular politician, mercifully neither imitated nor imitable.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 24, 2025

Although examples exist in the United States, the architectural design originated in ancient Rome and was broadly imitated in later European monuments.

From Salon Nov. 5, 2025

The Dukes of Berry and Brittany, two decent men, might have been trotting along the road, in satin cuirasses which imitated steel.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The second is that a machine can demonstrate intelligence by successfully imitating a human in conversation, an idea that later became known as the Turing test.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Zoe, born seven years later, grew up watching them, imitating them and wanting to be them.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

The thing about Spirit that makes it complicated is that the network carriers started imitating the business model of Spirit and the other ultra-low-cost carriers through basic economy fares.

From Slate May 5, 2026

So, faced with adult stores and mixed-age social media feeds, girls are doing what girls have always done: watching older girls, imitating grown-up rituals, reaching for whatever is available.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 20, 2026

"I am very good at imitating a man's voice," she said.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl




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