Sample Sentences for
emulate
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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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    Even after his injury and when his job made great demands on his time, he always found the time to train and play with the children of our neighborhood, emulating Sefior Faz's ideals.  (source)
    emulating = imitating
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    Seivarden's accent and way of speaking would be familiar to most educated Radchaai, from old entertainments and the way Anaander Mianaai's speech was widely emulated by prestigious—or hopefully prestigious—families.†  (source)
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    I shut down the emulator and began to browse through my video files.†  (source)
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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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    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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    Poems celebrated her, streets and squares bore her name, young girls sought to emulate her feats.†  (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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    That suggested that they had decided to stop having children, emulating the soap opera characters they admired.  (source)
    emulating = imitating
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