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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

Mulcachy, one of Harris Collins’s brightest graduates, had emulated his master by setting up in business in Chicago, where he ran everything with the same rigid cleanliness, sanitation, and scientific cruelty. 

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack

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 Sellar, W. Y.