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as in imitation
using or marked by the use of something else as a basis or model
your writing style tends to be imitative of whichever author you've recently read
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as in synthetic
being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials
an imitative extract never has the flavor of the real thing
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Recent Examples of imitative
Not surprisingly, Renaissance architects and writers ended up contriving very similar imitative strategies.
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Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
However, Cassilly noted in his statement that Harford could face an additional $6 million in new funding mandates linked to teacher salaries and pensions from the statewide funding imitative, Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2025
Aziz rolled out a summer crime imitative in 2021, shortly after his tenure began.
—Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The Emory oak restoration imitative to preserve groves in the region recently marked its fifth anniversary, Peacey said.
—The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
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Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
However, Cassilly noted in his statement that Harford could face an additional $6 million in new funding mandates linked to teacher salaries and pensions from the statewide funding imitative, Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.
—Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 28 Jan. 2025
Aziz rolled out a summer crime imitative in 2021, shortly after his tenure began.
—Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
The Emory oak restoration imitative to preserve groves in the region recently marked its fifth anniversary, Peacey said.
—The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for imitative
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The organic cotton is pesticide-free as Boll & Branch uses marigolds on their farms in place of synthetic alternatives, and the farming methods use less water.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
30 Apr. 2025
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Companies like Upside Foods have developed synthetic meat that can be made in the same city rather than shipped halfway across the world.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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To get robotic collectives closer to Terminator’s mimetic polyalloy, the team wants to make the robots smaller.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
1 Mar. 2025
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These mimetic dynamics play out not just within countries but between them.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Push your chairs and couches together to create a faux sectional look.—
Claire Hoppe Norgaard,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Apr. 2025
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And while both traditional and faux leather-making processes involve chemicals, PVC can release pollutants and toxic chemicals.—
Gia Yetikyel,
Vogue,
26 Apr. 2025
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Sure, there’s a reasonable and informed argument to be made that its big-budget excess, rampant commercialism, and formulaic checkbox-checking exemplify everything wrong with the AAA gaming industry right now.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 Apr. 2025
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Throughout this stretch, the Red Sox have almost become formulaic.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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The wonderfully unexpected opening sequence takes us inside a cockpit where the co-pilot’s warnings of discrepancies in the plane’s navigation system go unheeded by the captain, who steers them into a simulated fiery crash.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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When the simulated flight crashes, the screen turns into a wall of fire, and there’s Nathan.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
15 Apr. 2025
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Some mock drafts had the Steelers taking a running back like Omarion Hampton in the first round.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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Congratulations to all the top scorers who competed against 1,527 mock drafts!—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
29 Apr. 2025
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From factory employees in China stringing lights on artificial trees to dock workers unloading containers of toys, this vast labor force ensures Americans can choose from a wide selection of decorations and gifts each December.—
Zeyi Yang,
Wired News,
28 Apr. 2025
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For wreck divers, the 510-foot Navy dock landing ship USS Spiegel Grove now serves as an artificial reef six miles offshore.—
Marnie Hunter,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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The prospect of armies of AI bots that more closely mimic human users, and therefore resist detection, is both worrisome and probably inevitable.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
18 Oct. 2018
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These mimic quantum circuits without needing quantum hardware—some examples include IBM Qiskit Aer and Google Cirq Simulator.—
Margarita Simonova,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Imitative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imitative. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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