take off (on)

verb

Definition of take off (on)next
as in to mimic

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  1. mimic
  2. parody
  3. satirize
  4. imitate
  5. target
  6. caricature
  7. ape
  8. harass
Verb
  • Amorim and his team built replicas of Senna's cars from throughout his career, as well as dozens of other vintage-style vehicles, to mimic real races using professional drivers.
    Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The discovery opens up the potential for the creation of new drugs that would mimic the relaxed state common during breath work, meditation or yoga.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of mimic
Verb
  • The film clearly parodies Hollywood stereotypes and the movie-making process, blending humor with absurd situations.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Another creator parodied the TikToks of people blaming Younger for their kitchen woes, posing with a baking dish of uncooked pasta covered in flour.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of parody
Verb
  • The show satirizes some elements of televangelism with biting humor but depicts Tammy as a complicated woman who encouraged others to follow her mission to lead with love.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • In director Mary Harron’s original American Psycho, Bale’s sinister character — who may or may not be a serial killer — satirizes 1980s white-collar American culture and consumerism.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of satirize
Verb
  • One document included a business deck orchestrated by a group of political operatives called the American Patriots Project (APP) to imitate No Labels' website with the purchase of the NoLabels.com domain as well as Google search ads.
    Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Do not imitate Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh who discerned something negative about everything.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of imitate
Verb
  • The shorts target your core, legs, and thighs, and a silicone band at the waist helps keep everything secure.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The production team is targeting a winter 2025-26 shoot, contingent on co-production partnerships.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of target
Verb
  • Elegy thus belongs to an old and ignoble genre, one which caricatures the hillbilly for an audience’s titillation.
    Sarah Jones, Vulture, 15 July 2024
  • As is human nature, the two sides caricature each other and try to demonize each other.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
Definition of caricature
Verb
  • On its app homepage, JD has begun aping Pinduoduo by emphasizing discounts.
    Lavender Au, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Above all, those kids who come from the suburbs didn’t ape the Americans but chose their own narrative path, going much higher in quality.
    Marcello Junior Dino, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of ape
Verb
  • Where the accuser argues that a supervisor has engaged in harassing conduct, the need to undertake an investigation into claims remains just as legally significant.
    Gabriella Levine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Sullivan didn’t find this evidence indicative of an intent by Oakley to harass, as there’s no evidence Oakley responded or otherwise endorsed the texts.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of harass
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