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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ape .
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Examples
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Totalitarianism is a subset of tyranny, and a rather small and rigidly definable subset; and all of its essential defining qualities are either inventions of the extreme Left, or aped from the extreme Left by liberty-hating nationalists.
Radically dishonest superversive 2008
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Just because something is not aped after the "Sex and the City" doesn't make it humourless. (and personally, I seldom thought SATC very funny) "Alias" did fairly well (and was written by a man, to boot) and was neither humorless nor rigid nor witless, though from a feminist perspective it had a few elements that were problematic.
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In Canada the government and society aped the rigid social structure at home; there were many Canadians with noble titles.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The London-born, Turkish-Cypriot artist has previously aped advertising's slick appeal, from photorealist paintings of his niece picking flowers in Cyprus, to covering his East End neighbourhood with billboard posters bearing his name in a cool, chunky font.
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In Canada the government and society aped the rigid social structure at home; there were many Canadians with noble titles.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Lily aped a pirouette and collapsed giggling onto Pop-pop's lap.
After the Fall John Wentworth Chapin 2011
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The slick populism of the CSI franchise has been repeatedly aped in shows like Spooks, Hustle and Silent Witness.
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I know, Jaded Ones: You've heard this mantra aped by hundreds of chefs hundreds of times -- "honor the protein," and such.
Wild Foie Gras: It Exists Hunter Angler Gardener Cook 2010
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Like the spurious bonus culture, fat cat pensions were aped by the public sector's senior managers.
John Hutton refuses to give a green light to slash and burn on pensions Michael White 2010
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I know, Jaded Ones: You've heard this mantra aped by hundreds of chefs hundreds of times -- "honor the protein," and such.
Wild Foie Gras: It Exists Hunter Angler Gardener Cook 2010
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