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    What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus?  (source)
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    The boys who had been so trained by the computer that even when they played against each other they each tried to emulate the computer.  (source)
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    In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him.  (source)
    emulating = imitating
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    Milkman feared his father, respected him, but knew, because of the leg, that he could never emulate him.  (source)
    emulate = imitate
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    ...holding up the completed work of masters for emulation.  (source)
    emulation = imitation
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    That suggested that they had decided to stop having children, emulating the soap opera characters they admired.  (source)
    emulating = imitating
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    No wonder so many modern writers have often borrowed from and emulated Homer.†  (source)
    emulated = imitated
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    'Because this impostor, this assassin who calls himself Bourne, can be trapped by the extraordinary man he emulates--'  (source)
    emulates = imitates
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    I shut down the emulator and began to browse through my video files.†  (source)
    emulator = someone or something that imitates
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    emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur  (source)
    emulative = imitative
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.†  (source)
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    Walter was always seeking revenge for that first victory Max took from him, and Max was looking to emulate his moment of glory.†  (source)
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    It's true that they don't have a sense of smell, but angels, in their infinite love for the Living, go around smelling everything in emulation.  (source)
    emulation = imitation
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