emulate
verb (used with object)
to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass.
had emulated
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past perfectof emulate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Subsequent dynasties would look back to the Sasanians as the model to emulate, just as the Sasanians had emulated the Achaemenids.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Jackie Collins, who had kept her illness secret, said recently that she believed in an afterlife, that she had no regrets and that she had emulated Frank Sinatra in that “I did it my way.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2015
Although Figo had emulated Bernd Schuster and Michael Laudrup by leaving Barcelona for Real, he did not expect such a fierce reaction.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
The victors of Philippi, so far from following the example of clemency set to them by the great victor of Pharsalia, had emulated the worst excesses of the times of Marius and Sulla8.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
They had not been the portals of fashion, but in this respect, she deemed, they had emulated such bulwarks.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
