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
How many lives could have been saved if Napoleon and Wellington, or Moltke and McMahon had emulated the spirit of the Sullivan-Ryan prize fight!
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Since I had seen him, society had emulated the State in the practice of a truly sanative attitude toward him.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
