imitated

verb

Definition of imitatednext
past tense of imitate
1
as in copied
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior teenage musicians who imitate whichever rock stars are hot

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2
as in parodied
to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of imitating someone's stutter and laughing at them is a cruel thing to do

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3
as in reproduced
to make an exact likeness of a second-rate artist who was notorious for imitating the works of other painters

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for imitated
  1. copied
  2. reproduced
  3. emulated
  4. mocked
  5. replicated
  6. rendered
Verb
  • Digital works can be easily copied and might eventually be digested by LLMs, anyway.
    David Pakman, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The resulting conflict between their different cultures and personalities is so standard, the script could have been copied and pasted from other situation comedies.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of copied
Verb
  • Digital content, by its nature, can be endlessly reproduced or copied.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
  • This article originally appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and was reproduced with permission.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of reproduced
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  • From Wrestlemania to Westerns, American culture and its archetypes are exported to, and emulated in, nearly every corner of the globe.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Whatever behaviors leaders engage in, those are emulated by some of their followers, whether those are positive or negative.
    Joyce E. A. Russell, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of emulated
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  • The prosecutor, having successfully argued to exclude the abuse testimony, mocked the brothers’ defense during his closing arguments for not producing any evidence of abuse.
    Kim Kardashian, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • He’s mocked, laughed at or just roundly dismissed because of his facial tumors.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of mocked
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  • Apollo and Blackstone have synthetically replicated the traditional commercial banking model.
    Don Muir, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Aguirre says the team replicated various scenarios, like going to Costco for big shopping trips, to see how the shelf and cargo space holds up.
    Kristin Shaw, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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  • All but the two notifications about Iran were privately rendered, but Brandt and the experts’ chair told me that, unlike the Justice Department, the intelligence agencies have no rule against publicizing allegations about a foreign influence plot in the days before the vote.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Bid instead on this Richard Mille model created in collaboration with tennis champ Rafael Nadal—rendered here in the red, white, and blue of Brady’s New England Patriots.
    Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of rendered
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