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imitate

[im-i-teyt] / ˈɪm ɪˌteɪt /


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She doesn’t imitate being the mother of the blues, as her character is known.

From Los Angeles Times 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

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

Since there is no restriction tying the singer to a “fixed” notation, children are free to just imitate or to explore, improvise and play with the sound.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's Mar. 13, 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

While AI-generated music is rife online, it's often released under fictitious names, or imitates big stars, but it doesn't normally appear on their official streaming pages.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2025

She gets up and imitates the host and makes a joke in Urdu.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

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

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

Often imitated, never duplicated, a ring from Spinelli Kilcollin is both classic and subversive enough to be interesting for decades to come.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2025

The formula that Liszt put to use in his Hungarian Rhapsodies, and which was much imitated thereafter, was simple enough.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

"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

The song would only become even more synonymous with the president in 2022, when his hokey dance often done to the classic became so viral that athletes around the world began imitating it.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2026

We were still imitating what the elders do.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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