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as in emulates
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior
teenage musicians who imitate whichever rock stars are hot
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as in mocks
to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of
imitating someone's stutter and laughing at them is a cruel thing to do
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as in reproduces
to make an exact likeness of
a second-rate artist who was notorious for imitating the works of other painters
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Recent Examples of imitates
In the second episode, which premiered on August 6, Cartman imitates Kirk with a podcast and debates college students.
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Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Sometimes art imitates life by skipping a generation.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
His rhetoric occasionally imitates Trump when talking about China and the World Trade Organization.
—Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
And as life imitates life, Jamie’s father, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), rides up on a horse to stop Julia from making a foolish mistake.
—Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Art certainly imitates life as alcohol isn’t just a plotline but a major player in the lives of the movie stars themselves.
—Lipi Roy, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
At Harrods, the brand is renovating its space and will soon unveil a concession that imitates a Parisian-style apartment.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Over time, the neural net learns which patterns are best at computing solutions, an AI strategy that imitates the human brain.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2017
Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Sometimes art imitates life by skipping a generation.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
His rhetoric occasionally imitates Trump when talking about China and the World Trade Organization.
—Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
And as life imitates life, Jamie’s father, Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), rides up on a horse to stop Julia from making a foolish mistake.
—Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Art certainly imitates life as alcohol isn’t just a plotline but a major player in the lives of the movie stars themselves.
—Lipi Roy, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
At Harrods, the brand is renovating its space and will soon unveil a concession that imitates a Parisian-style apartment.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Over time, the neural net learns which patterns are best at computing solutions, an AI strategy that imitates the human brain.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imitates
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All of this is controlled by a NVIDIA Jetson single-board computer, which hosts a message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) broker to facilitate communication between the hardware and the software that emulates a real reactor.—
David Szondy
September 10,
New Atlas,
10 Sep. 2025
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Thoughtful details went into the design, such as a grand entrance with a narrowing tunnel that emulates the dramatic walk into a world-class stadium.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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After being told that Dawn is dead, Gaal mocks Demerzel for pretending to grieve, which angers the robot.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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And in June, Erdős and Volodymyr Riabov posted a paper that reproduces Yau and Yin’s one-dimensional result for a broader class of band matrices.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Aug. 2025
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Dynamic magnetism model offers insights beyond plutonium By incorporating temperature-dependent magnetic states, the model accurately reproduces the unusual experimental observation that delta-plutonium contracts at high temperatures.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Aug. 2025
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As Office alumni branched out, copies begat copies.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Typically said when someone copies a trend, latches onto a friend's obsession, or just teases in a playful way.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
5 Sep. 2025
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For the social media stars — whose content parodies their real lives through comedic skits — the new baby will also present an opportunity for new kinds of videos.—
Luke Chinman,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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South Park’s Eric Cartman parodies Kirk in the episode by asking a college student a question, referencing Kirk’s viral debates on college campuses.—
Sydney Topf,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Aug. 2025
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The poster starts by making some chirping noises, which the cat replicates.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The fractured narrative replicates the characters’ fractured perspectives.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
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Purvis described a new finishing process that mimics the look of garment dyed denim without high minimums.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Sep. 2025
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Value is achieved incrementally and mimics the gradual nature of adoption that’s based on the company’s current level of maturity.—
Marco Santos,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Charleston doesn’t do seasons the way the rest of America does.—
Jenn Rice,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Never follow your boyfriend to college, especially a seemingly mediocre college, as Belly does with Jeremiah to the fictional Finch.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Imitates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imitates. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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