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imitate

[im-i-tayt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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"I don't want to imitate him but I try to resemble him," she said of her uncle.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“The goal shouldn’t be to simply imitate traditional film or television,” said von Schwarz.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

They then bombarded the gas mixture with protons to imitate the stream of energetic particles generated by solar superflares.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026

“AI should help people create something new, not imitate someone else’s work,” Suno Chief Executive Mikey Shulman said in a blog post on the company’s website in August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Within a few days after my arrival, we knew what to do: imitate Linus Pauling and beat him at his own game.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

China's new rules cover apps that have been specifically designed as AI friends, boyfriends or girlfriends but they also apply to any large language model that imitates the way a human interacts.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Researchers have created a hollow CdS@polydopamine nanoreactor that imitates two important features of living cells.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Yet it wisely imitates neither the structure nor tone of its noble predecessor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

We’ll all find out together if, with the original stock market superstition, life actually imitates art.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

He imitates not just words, but the voices of people that spoke them.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Since 2013, Mboladinga has worn colourful suits and silently imitated a statue of revered revolutionary leader Patrice Lumumba, with one arm raised, for entire matches.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

His drip painting technique is one the art world's most recognisable and often imitated.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

That strategy was imitated across industries, making complex goods affordable and helping establish the modern middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The whole class burst out in laughter, and others gleefully imitated him.

From "Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution" by Ji-li Jiang

Sure, it owes a debt to Faulkner—with its high diction and sentences that outpace their punctuation—but it isn’t imitating him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Barnett, 41, returned to Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday morning, explaining she had been absent in recent weeks because she was in hospital "in a case of life imitating work".

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

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

Omakayas planned out a flower and began immediately, imitating Mama, to sew the beads into the design.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich




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