as in to mimic
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Inevitably, someone ended up swinging a quilt around to mimic the great snake’s darting heads and churning coils.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025 -
Those cuts wound up mimicking what a diamond looks in its natural state.—
James Manso,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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Young Frankenstein, released in 1974, is considered a comedy classic and parodied monster movies of the 1930s, Universal’s Frankenstein films in particular.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
30 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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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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The fact that these programs are becoming adept at imitating consciousness, however, may be all that matters for now.—
Webb Wright,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Multiple images of Trump then pop up behind the New York lawmaker seemingly to imitate a mariachi band.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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In layman’s terms, that means partner universities will be adjusting course to target skills that employers have identified aren’t being taught in a classroom setting.—
Austin Hornbostel,
Nashville Tennessean,
1 Oct. 2025
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Programmatic advertising lets buyers target audiences based on demographics, shopping patterns or other attributes.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
1 Oct. 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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Critics accused him of aping Farage’s rhetoric and warned that Labour could lose votes to the left in trying to court the right.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
30 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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Burrow’s replacement, Jake Browning, struggled yet again as the starter, throwing for just 125 yards and being harassed by Denver defenders all night because of a porous offensive line.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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Working closely with schools, says Mosseri, can help the platform handle issues that may fly under the radar, such as a user who isn't overtly harassing another.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
26 Sep. 2025
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