imitative

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The SEC called the settlement the third in its EPS Imitative, which uses risk-based data analysis to uncover potential accounting and disclosure violations resulting from so-called "earnings management," among other things.

From Reuters • Aug. 24, 2021

Imitative skills are essential in a place where storytelling, and the caricaturing of your fellow citizens, is what transforms a seemingly uneventful backwater into a soap opera of endless fascination.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2018

Friday, 7:30: “The Imitative Game – Counterpoint through the Ages.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2016

In 1976 the journal Pediatrics ran a paper titled “The Consequences of Imitative Behavior in Children: The Evel Knievel Syndrome.”

From New York Times • May 3, 2011

Imitative Origin of Language consistent with the Unity of the Human Race.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Johnes, Arthur James