imitate
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And besides, there’s a theory that, with the meow, the cats were evolving to imitate us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
You’re trying to communicate something to a group that doesn’t want you to communicate to them, but, instead, wants you to simply imitate or channel angsty teenage feelings—that’s really childish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
They tested a drug designed to imitate the way C3 blocks myeloid cells from entering tumors.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
If I’m going to imitate Kandinsky, I’m going to have to bring on the shapes.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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We’ll all find out together if, with the original stock market superstition, life actually imitates art.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Instead of copying part of a virus or bacterium, this new vaccine imitates the communication signals immune cells exchange during infection.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
“In Europa, you perform the same concert and the response is much more, how you say, restrained. In England it is”—he imitates a posh English accent—“ ‘That was really lovely, you know.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The company further alleges that Trader Joe’s version imitates the packaging and colors on the boxes of Uncrustables.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025
Herrmann’s orchestra imitates a swing band’s jazzy rhythms and brassy sound.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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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
It featured a manipulated video of former Brazil striker Ronaldo which imitated his voice.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 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
Inmates in neighboring cells snickered at this and imitated Brereton in low tones.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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Most of the porcelain was made for the European market, underscoring a subtext of cross-fertilization, already stated by Islamic ceramics imitating Chinese blue and white.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Barnett, 41, returned to Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday morning, explaining she had been absent in recent weeks because she was in hospital "in a case of life imitating work".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The second is that a machine can demonstrate intelligence by successfully imitating a human in conversation, an idea that later became known as the Turing test.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 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
Stay focused, girl, she told herself, imitating her godfather’s voice.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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