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imitate

[im-i-tayt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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AI models can adopt unique personalities, hold memories of past conversations and imitate language accurately enough to pass for a human.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

He must examine the reasons for their victories and for their defeats, in order to avoid the latter and to imitate the former.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

The hopefuls included the daughter of late autocrat Alberto Fujimori, a comedian who imitates his rivals, a fugitive, and a business magnate who has adopted the nickname Porky because of his chubby face.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

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 habits, like those of Henry David Thoreau, were widely discussed but seldom imitated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

This time Mr. Brydon is the one being imitated, and the interaction is appropriately disturbing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

While these calls typically appear to be from a UK mobile number, Fell said these numbers will be imitated, or spoofed, by the criminals behind the scam.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“So many of Flynn’s films are supposedly his life being imitated in art, and that was kind of like the last instance of that, in a very sordid way,” O’Brien said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He put on a high-piitched squeak and imitated a house-elf.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Most of the porcelain was made for the European market, underscoring a subtext of cross-fertilization, already stated by Islamic ceramics imitating Chinese blue and white.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Later in the game, Cleveland’s José Ramírez was seen in the dugout apparently imitating Yan’s airborne style of rejoicing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

Edwin curled his arms over his head imitating a whale’s head and began to pace around the fire, dipping his head up and down as if breaking through the waves.

From "Touching Spirit Bear" by Ben Mikaelsen


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