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But Migos have made it their trademark and, more important, a seemingly inexhaustible rhythmic resource — for them and for the countless rappers who have been imitating them since “Versace.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2017

British pop singers have been imitating American pronunciations since Cliff Richards, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones began recording in the 1960s.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2012

The Serbs of Croatia have been imitating, nay exaggerating, the emphatic manners of their countrymen in the old kingdom.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

But, of late years, DE MOLIERE, the younger CORNEILLE, QUINAULT, and some others, have been imitating, afar off, the quick turns and graces of the English Stage.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor

What Wellington did, the Italians under Cadorna have been imitating in their own peninsula, and their service to their allies has thus been very considerable.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)