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 Veblen, Thorstein

Both lines of aptitudes are cultivated and strengthened by the life of sport as well as by the more serious forms of emulative life.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein

So far as regards the serviceability of the individual for the purposes of the collective life, emulative efficiency is of use only indirectly if at all.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein