ape
noun
any member of the superfamily Hominoidea, the two extant branches of which are the lesser apes (gibbons) and the great apes (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans).
has aped
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present perfectof ape (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It’s not the first time Meta has aped a competitor’s innovation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo worshiper using "Fast Dice Oil."
From Time Magazine Archive
London is a modern Babylon; Paris has aped imperial Rome, and may share its catastrophe.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
There must be poverty-stricken folk indeed, for I saw that the houses showed no sign whatever of the ugliness that the Marquesan has aped from the whites.
From White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien
