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And besides, there’s a theory that, with the meow, the cats were evolving to imitate us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Then, Grossman was paired with Zoe Wohlfeld and instructed to imitate boiling milk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

This is, of course, exactly the sort of interaction that restaurant apps are forever attempting to imitate.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

Unitree’s humanoid robots can walk, run and climb and “can imitate & reinforce the learning drive” said the company, referring to algorithms that train the robot’s artificial intelligence as it undertakes tasks.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

Furthermore, Methuselah didn’t just imitate words, he knew them.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

In the best light, the new strategy imitates Theodore Roosevelt’s effort to take advantage of America’s rising influence and mediate balances of power in East Asia and Europe while dominating North America and the Caribbean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

The company further alleges that Trader Joe’s version imitates the packaging and colors on the boxes of Uncrustables.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

The question/answer technique is slightly more difficult than echoing in that echoing merely imitates what the leader has done, and answering requires the creation of a different rhythm.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Coltrane singlehandedly made the soprano saxophone the popular jazz instrument it is today, exceeding Sonny Rollins’s influence on tenor saxophone and replacing Charlie Parker as jazz’s most imitated saxophone player.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Life imitated art for Cyrus, who became a global pop star off the back of the show's success.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

Life imitated art when, in 2019, Van Der Beek fulfilled the prophecy foretold by a “Don’t Trust the B—” storyline and became a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

“Sopranos” creator David Chase ran all those rules through the meat grinder at Satriale’s, and in the process made the most imitated show since “I Love Lucy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Backstage, before closing night, Jimmy Snyder imitated Grandma to the rest of the cast and crew.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

"Triple threat. Go big or go home. Life imitating art."

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Mr. Daniels, remodeled with heavy hair and makeup, still only vaguely resembles his subject, though he does have an endearing way of imitating Reagan’s tendency to tilt his head this way and that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

In her studio, surrounded by shelves of porcelain figures she recovered from Altadena and refired, she fashions whimsical sculptures imitating feminine figures and feline forms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

According to the study, this is the first documented case of a spider imitating a parasitic fungus that infects other spiders.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

Gabe made a face and growled loudly, imitating a beast of some kind.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry