imitative

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That was great advice because it was a book that I’d written very much out of imitative aspiration, imitating Joyce and Hemingway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

The research also details potential breakthroughs in specific areas, including pump-jet propulsion and internal quieting devices, based on "imitative innovation" of Russian technology.

From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2023

That’s not a bad approach; getting arty might just seem imitative, and the noncanonical status of this new chapter allows it not to be too precious about what came before.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022

But those efforts, like so many film adaptations before them, distill essentially only the basic ingredients of their stage sources — plot, character, music — and as a result feel more imitative than transformative.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

Too eager, too anxious—an imitative and unoriginal pupil.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez