as in to mimic
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The exercises mimicked the demands of difficult backcountry missions.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026 -
The company is currently redesigning its website to mimic the ease of in-store shopping.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2026
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The scene came in a fictional segment parodying Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead in which Maggie defends her architectural talents after her daycare teacher punishes her for making beautiful structures from building blocks.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Dec. 2025
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Grande, who has been featured as a musical guest twice (once as part of her double-duty in 2016), sang, parodied and disappeared into characters all through the night, flexing her skillset as a host who’s game to try on costumes no matter how ridiculous, impressions no matter how far-fetched.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
20 Dec. 2025
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By positing the aliens as fans and offering these performers a real moment to be heroes, Galaxy Quest both satirizes and celebrates fandom, acknowledging the genuine impact fictional touchstones ultimately have on their most devoted consumers.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Jan. 2026
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The film’s British production, and its British filmmaker, can’t help but occupy a large section of the movie’s negative space, inviting questions about who and what exactly is being satirized (or perhaps patronized) in this tale of warring desert nations.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
29 Dec. 2025
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James said while walking through the venue, imitating her excitement.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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When anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois took over CBS Evening News last year, part of the network’s strategy was to imitate a local news format, with a genial cast of personalities reporting from the field.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The cash payments will target mothers in seven Indianapolis ZIP codes with some of the highest infant mortality rates.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
5 Nov. 2025
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Boston is one of the teams linked to potentially trade for Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal, but Freddy Peralta and Hunter Greene both represent solid options to target this offseason.—
Shaun McAvoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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During Newby’s tenure as chief justice, a cartoon has hung in the Supreme Court depicting him as Superman, surrounded by a coterie of conservative appellate justices caricatured as other members of DC Comics’ Justice League.—
Doug Bock Clark,
ProPublica,
30 Dec. 2025
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Israel’s fiercest advocates in the United States may caricature the end of exceptional treatment as U.S. abandonment of Israel and a reward for the perpetrators of October 7.—
Andrew P. Miller,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Dec. 2025
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In October, the Department of Homeland Security posted an image aping marketing for the Halo series.—
Megan Farokhmanesh,
Wired News,
21 Nov. 2025
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More importantly, this origin story of a movie and a movement apes the joie de moviemaking and the jazzy looseness of the original to an absolutely amazing degree, replicating an off-the-cuff feeling that’s more than a second-hand buzz.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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Some might have expected Declan Rice alone to win those headers or harass the opposition in that manner, but the partnership between these two is about more than just Zubimendi allowing the England midfielder to burst into goalscoring areas.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Student and faculty critics also accused the university of being too slow to respond to complaints about a rising star astrophysicist, Christian Ott, accused or harassing and discriminating against female graduate students as early as 2012.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 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 16 Jan. 2026.
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