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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 Kim Kardashian's case, art imitates life.
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Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
For ultraminimalists, this simple coverlet from Parachute imitates the look of a quilt without the fill, delivers on the work of a good throw blanket, and makes for a perfect year-round bed linen on account of its weight.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
The former imitates delicate shoots off of a vine tree.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
If art imitates life, then One Battle After Another is an apt reflection of our absurd times.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
Student imitates Charlie Kirk's death and mocks him, goes up to statue where TPUSA members are and imitates his death again, and spits near them.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 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
Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
For ultraminimalists, this simple coverlet from Parachute imitates the look of a quilt without the fill, delivers on the work of a good throw blanket, and makes for a perfect year-round bed linen on account of its weight.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
The former imitates delicate shoots off of a vine tree.
—Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
If art imitates life, then One Battle After Another is an apt reflection of our absurd times.
—Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Sep. 2025
Student imitates Charlie Kirk's death and mocks him, goes up to statue where TPUSA members are and imitates his death again, and spits near them.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imitates
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Legion Space has come a long way and decently emulates a console experience.—
Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
2 Oct. 2025
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In August, Hron says the online research tool Westlaw unveiled Deep Research, an agentic workflow that can plan, review, and strategize legal research in a manner that emulates human work.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watches [pornography series] Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Oct. 2025
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The exchange mocks our urge to impose order on the messiness of narrative.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Hawley even reproduces the kidnapping scene from the film, but with Dorothy as the intended kidnapee.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 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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Spoofing happens when a scammer copies someone’s social media profile, such as their name, photos and other details, to create a fake account that looks real.—
Marin Independent Journal,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
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Think about Nobu — everybody copies their rolls.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 Sep. 2025
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Newsom has been trying to raise his national profile, adopting a combative style that parodies Trump’s social media strategy with similar all-caps posts, memes and merchandise.—
Adriana Gomez Licon,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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In another nod to Scream, Cheri Oteri parodies Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers as the comically unethical news anchor Gail Hailstorm.—
Skyler Trepel,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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The vessel has other eco details such as synthetic teak that replicates authentic teak in both looks and the ability to stay cool underfoot, a bio-resin in the layup, among others.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
22 Oct. 2025
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To strengthen local talent, Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington, is launching an Energy Learning Center with a simulator that replicates X-energy’s control room.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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The articles are written by Musk’s Grok AI, and the site mimics Wikipedia’s minimalist style, page structure and reference style.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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This process mimics how healthy retinal cells normally send visual information to the brain.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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There’s a lot of stuff in the ocean, and marine debris tends to aggregate in the same places as does the whale sharks’ primary prey.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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Maybe the bench does it more naturally, but the running didn’t stop when the starters were together.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Imitates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imitates. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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