Thesaurus results for APING

aping

verb

present participle of ape

as in imitating

to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior was caught aping the substitute teacher's thick accent

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Recent Examples of aping For Shorts, the label will appear as a small overlay at the bottom of the video itself, although that will add to the already cluttered look of the TikTok-aping Shorts. —

ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026 There’s a word for this type of storytelling, and Taccone deserves credit for delivering a superior version of this without outright aping its most famous practitioner. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2026 But the series’ genre switch is just a theatrical exercise, like Euphoria is putting on another play, this one against a Harmony Korine– and Quentin Tarantino–aping backdrop. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026 The re-enactments, which include bomb-making and transportation, as well as the three-pronged plan to escape, have a flavor that calls to mind ’70s heist and spy films, accompanied by Michael James Lee’s jaunty, genre-aping score. —

Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026 Trying To Avoid The Generic However, having minimal buttons is hardly an original design strategy when so many EVs have followed this route (aping Tesla). —

James Morris, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026 Critics accused him of aping Farage’s rhetoric and warned that Labour could lose votes to the left in trying to court the right. —

Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025 Ryback shows the younger man's relaxation-as-growth around impressive set pieces, including a segment of aping famed concert pianists Alfred Brendel and Glenn Gould as well as Hoffman's blistering rant after a visit to Dachau. —

Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025

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So in that moment, life is imitating art a little bit.

— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
So maybe that was art imitating life.

— Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 May 2026