as in to mimic
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Rental cabins built in 2012 and 2013 mimic the style of the original 1928 Cedar Pass Cabins.—
Dave Parfitt,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025 -
In a similar attempt to mimic legitimate proceedings, another of her clients was told to hold their finger up to their webcam — mimicking the fingerprinting that immigrants undergo.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
22 Sep. 2025
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Katie Couric is parodying Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle jeans ad for a good cause.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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Last Wednesday marked one week since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a popular conservative pundit whom South Park parodied earlier this season.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Sep. 2025
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Bulimia is no joke, even if Early finds unexpected humor in satirizing how such issues were once dealt with by mainstream TV.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Producers have moved the show to an every-other-week schedule to more fully satirize current events.—
Meredith G. White,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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To achieve the characteristic soap-nails effect, the color should be applied in thin layers and have a glossy finish, imitating the transparency and freshness of a wet bar of soap.—
Irene Reyes,
Glamour,
23 Sep. 2025
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Lewis allegedly obtained the spray -- designed to imitate fecal odor -- from an online distributor, according to the sheriff's office.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
23 Sep. 2025
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First, the pinpoint deliveries from Will Hughes, Adam Wharton and the now-Arsenal player Eberechi Eze, which allow Palace to target different zones depending on the opponent’s setup and the profiles of the players.—
Ahmed Walid,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Al-Sharaa also fulfilled promises to target ISIS and other terrorist groups operating in Syria.—
Chris Massaro,
FOXNews.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.—
Zephyr Teachout,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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These projects are often caricatured, but their strategic logic is clear: build new clusters, catalyze supply chains and skills, and crowd in private capital.—
Ali Shihabi,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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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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There are high columns crawling with ivy, nearly 12 acres of rolling lawns, teensy windows with teensy shutters, and a diminutive pool house that apes a fairy-tale cottage.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
16 Sep. 2025
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Second-year Falcons quarterback Michael Penix was harassed by Evero’s pressure packages throughout the afternoon.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Sep. 2025
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Kruitbosch told her to stop harassing him.—
Dan Eaton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Take off (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take%20off%20%28on%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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