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as in to come (to)
to be the same in meaning or effect
what they offered at the new resort didn't begin to emulate the kind of pampering we were used to getting at the resort that closed down
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as in to imitate
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior
a pro athlete who has often said that children should emulate their parents—not him
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Recent Examples of emulate
The stream features several pools to hold the endangered fish and includes native vegetation to emulate their disappearing natural environment.
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John Leos, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
From speculating that what scares people the most is anything natural (which can’t be emulated) to advising never listen to a designer, especially a man designer, Jacobs is direct.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
That is the spirit the Kennedy Institute will honor tonight, the ideal that guided its namesake’s work, and the worthy example that all who go to Washington to do the people’s business should strive to emulate.
—Martin J. Walsh, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The goal is clearly to emulate a series like Slow Horses or The Americans, yet all that attention paid to what the Talamasca does wrong only amplifies how the show fails to sketch a genuine identity for the group.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
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John Leos, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
From speculating that what scares people the most is anything natural (which can’t be emulated) to advising never listen to a designer, especially a man designer, Jacobs is direct.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
That is the spirit the Kennedy Institute will honor tonight, the ideal that guided its namesake’s work, and the worthy example that all who go to Washington to do the people’s business should strive to emulate.
—Martin J. Walsh, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
The goal is clearly to emulate a series like Slow Horses or The Americans, yet all that attention paid to what the Talamasca does wrong only amplifies how the show fails to sketch a genuine identity for the group.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emulate
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Tribeca Festival Lisboa programmer Fabio Martins sees originality and emotional truth going further to help Portuguese filmmakers reach international audiences than imitating popular trends in global cinema.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Maybe that was just art-making imitating life.—
Thomas Page,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Working from top to bottom means debris from the top will land on a dirty floor instead of a clean one.—
Kelsey Mulvey,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2025
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Doing so would mean advancing the clocks forward an hour for the whole year, so that the sun would appear to rise and set an hour later in both the summer and in the winter.—
Chantelle Lee,
Time,
31 Oct. 2025
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Yet Fulton County officials have still insisted the ballots could not be copied or released.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Nov. 2025
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Promoter sequences are short stretches of DNA that tell the cell’s copying machinery where a new protein starts.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Their language mimics the essence of things, evocations of items and experiences.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Crucially, the scientists mimicked this process by creating an artificial neural network, and by applying a simple algorithm called gradient descent to increase the accuracy of its predictions.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Inputs are applied as horizontal or vertical displacements at the sheet’s edges, and outputs appear as movements at other edges, matching the result of a matrix applied to the input vector.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Season 4 will consist of eight episodes, matching the number in the third installment.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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Skin-tight is out, baggy is in, and these buttery-soft pieces prove that comfort doesn’t have to equal sloppy.—
Katie Ann Lehman,
StyleCaster,
24 Oct. 2025
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Overbought doesn't always equal sell, but serves as a reminder to take some profits after a solid run.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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According to Accenture’s 2025 Pulse of Change report, 27% of organizations are already investing in AI agents across multiple parts of their enterprises, signifying the real value AI is creating.—
Daniel Kendzior,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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While the northern portion of the eyewall began moving ashore earlier on Tuesday morning, landfall signifies the moment when a hurricane's center crosses the shore onto land.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Emulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emulate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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