mimicking

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Watch football at any level and you will see coaches and players, young and old, mimicking what Guardiola has brought to the game.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Symptoms can be severe and wide-ranging - from very heavy periods to extreme tiredness and abdominal pain - often mimicking other conditions.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Stewart also pointed to new forms of identity theft where criminals create synthetic identities and social-media accounts mimicking the behaviors of real people.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

Weight-loss drugs like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro and Zepbound work by mimicking gut hormones including GLP-1, suppressing appetite and making people feel full sooner when eating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

‘Saruman, you missed your path in life. You should have been the king’s jester and earned your bread, and stripes too, by mimicking his counsellors. Ah me!’ he paused, getting the better of his mirth.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien