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imitates

VERB

pretend to be; do an impression of

Synonyms

STRONGEST

act like ape assume duplicate echo emulate impersonate mimic mirror mock pretend replicate reproduce resemble simulate

STRONG

Xerox affect borrow burlesque caricature clone copy counterfeit ditto falsify feign follow forge match mime parallel parody personate reduplicate reflect repeat sham spoof travesty

WEAK

be like carbon do like do likewise follow in footsteps follow suit look like model after pattern after play a part put on send up take off

Antonyms

STRONGEST

differ tell truth

STRONG

disregard

WEAK

be original clash oppose reverse

Example Sentences

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Life Imitates Art: Like her paintings, Ms. Papademetropoulos’s personal life borders on the surreal.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2021

In the first year of my sports journalism career, my boyfriend gave me a special birthday gift: Tom Boswell’s classic “How Life Imitates the World Series.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2021

More than two centuries later, former world champion Garry Kasparov wrote a self-help book based on the belief that chess offers signposts for life, titled How Life Imitates Chess.

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2016

Life Imitates Curb #572: Larry's on-screen manager Jeff Garlin arrested in LA after an altercation over a parking spot.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

The Country Imitates the City.—The rural schools have always imitated the city schools, as rural life attempts to imitate city life.

From Rural Life and the Rural School by Kennedy, Joseph