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Dozens of other churches in the area have imitatively organized their own small study groups.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the clever technician who imitatively paints the flower as he knows it to be,

From The Enjoyment of Art by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge

They spoke His name tentatively, as an experiment, and imitatively.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander

When I begin to talk I repeat this name imitatively, and thinking of myself as others do.

From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert

Doubtless he had developed his Weltschmerz mechanically, imitatively, at so many marks or lire an hour.

From The Dominant Strain by Edwards, H. C. (Harry C.)