as in to mimic
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To prevent knee pain while running on the treadmill, Saad suggests setting the incline to 1 percent to mimic running outside.—
Danielle Zickl,
Outside,
8 Mar. 2026 -
At one point, Styles’ car crashes beneath a truck and bursts into flames, one of several over-the-top moments that playfully mimic Hollywood action films.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Mar. 2026
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It was endlessly parodied and imitated.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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But for fans who’ve lived with this show across decades — through different casts, different eras, different presidents being parodied on cold opens — the real measure of Michaels’ impact is harder to quantify.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Mar. 2026
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Along the way, Verbinski and Robinson flesh out a few of the characters with flashbacks, starting with Mark and Janet, as the issue of high school students being addicted to their phones is satirized effectively.—
Mark Meszoros,
Boston Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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Adams created his defining comic strip in 1989, satirizing white collar work life.—
Jillian Sederholm,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Jan. 2026
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It was endlessly parodied and imitated.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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The aforementioned uprising, for example, occurs during a dance sequence that inspires an army of young women to imitate Ida, down to her peculiar face tattoos.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2026
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Israel, ahead of the announcement, threatened to target whoever was chosen.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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Pezeshkian and other Iranian leaders have underlined the limited powers exercised by the theocracy’s leaders over the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which controls ballistic missiles used to target Israel and other countries.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2026
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For years, national media caricatured our city as a war zone.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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These changes have been caricatured as authoritarian and corrupt.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Hopefully, that will honor the original film by not trying to ape it.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2026
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But none aped the style of an actual Super Bowl ad more cleverly than this one, clearly modeled after Budweiser’s ads that tend to feature horses and inspirational voiceovers.—
Omar L. Gallaga,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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But, just like Elmer Fudd, there was one beast that constantly eluded the mighty hermit hunter and actually took great pleasure in harassing him.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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Identifying details about crime victims – including any information that could be used to locate, intimidate, harass or abuse a victim – would be exempt indefinitely.—
Gabriel Velasquez Neira,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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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 12 Mar. 2026.
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