to emulate
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6.0
- verb
- /ˈɛm.jə.leɪt/
:
emular
- Many young athletes strive to emulate their idols on the field.
- want to emulate
- try to emulate
- emulate the success
Someone else will emulate the TikTok shop idea.
- Someone else will emulate the TikTok shop idea.
- Who might be a good role model, and how might I emulate that person?
- Some of the houses, as I will show you, try to emulate white middle class houses.
- Your child learns that they have to worship or emulate or militarily obey that parent.
- People like to emulate rich people, and this is historically true.
- Someone listening will emulate what you do.
- And if you only teach the good, sure, you can emulate it.
- I try to follow winners, see what they're doing, try to, you know, emulate that in my own way.
- The premise here was just getting women to act more like men and emulate their pre-existing power dynamics.
- And I seem to kind of follow Thomas, I guess I emulated him.
- Which is also then where you see a lot of people, men and women, emulating what they think tough is.
Examples
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Who might be a good role model, and how might I emulate that person?
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Billy Burroughs Jr. had little contact with his father, whom he tried to emulate.
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Some of the houses, as I will show you, try to emulate white middle class houses.
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I kind of feel like I want to emulate the best.
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Someone listening will emulate what you do.
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You wanted to emulate your mother.
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Admire them, emulate them, learn from them.
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All my life I wanted to emulate my mother, who stressed perfection and achievement.
Academic text (1991) -
What we do is valued and even emulated by colleagues beyond our district boundaries.
Academic text (2012) -
By regularly sharing your reasoning and verification strategies, you encourage students to emulate you.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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2.7
Copy the way someone speaks, looks, or acts
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1.0
Do something the same way someone else does
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3.4
To do the same job as someone who came before you, for example a parent
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3.5
Try to behave like someone you admire
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4.5
Made to look or act like something else
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4.1
Copy what someone does to get the same results
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Etymology
The word emulate comes from the Latin aemulari, meaning 'to rival' or 'to strive to equal', like the English word 'rival'. So to emulate someone is to try to match their skill or success, often by copying what they do.