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
This is especially true if his dominant impulses are the unreflecting emulative propensities of the predaceous temperament.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
His emulative practice of his art asks for a closer consideration than that usually given to it.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
They are partly simple and unreflected expressions of an attitude of emulative ferocity, partly activities deliberately entered upon with a view to gaining repute for prowess.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
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