emulate
verb (used with object)
to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass.
emulative
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a word derived from
emulate.
Example Sentences
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Then came the Erie Canal and the frenzied funding of emulative projects, many of which failed, but the successes redeemed the rest.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016
His film is a variation on the master's masterpiece, Persona, but it has what Allen's other emulative exercises lacked, namely wit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taking the population as a whole, this predatory, emulative variant does not seem to have attained a high degree of consistency or stability.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
His example, the wonderful incentive of his work, the absolute perfection of his conclusions, must have proved marvellous emulative factors for the students who flocked to Alexandria.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
Pape put the pinto to an emulative gallop.
From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance
