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  • verb Present participle of ape.

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Examples

  • What’s the point in aping Apple’s colors (as people claim)?

    Refreshing The Ubuntu Brand | jonobacon@home 2010

  • Also, the classicist you’re aping is J.D. Beazley.

    bad kitten back again « paper fruit 2009

  • Equestrian style has always played a part in fashion: Hermès started out in 1837 as a harness workshop on the outskirts of Paris; Ralph Lauren made his name by aping the classic sporty look of the East Coast riding set; Katherine Hooker, the Duchess of Cambridge's favourite tailor, based her line on the shape and texture of the traditional hacking jacket.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • To each his own, but the guys at Dynamite seem to be doing nothing more than "aping" every trend that either Marvel or DC has already burned through - many times over - and that is just not the way to make it long term in this business.

    "Fighting Mad" over Fighting American! Chuck Wells 2009

  • To each his own, but the guys at Dynamite seem to be doing nothing more than "aping" every trend that either Marvel or DC has already burned through - many times over - and that is just not the way to make it long term in this business.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Chuck Wells 2009

  • When Masquerade was published, one prominent magazine claimed I was "aping" my male betters.

    Gayle Lynds: "Aping" Her Betters 2008

  • But are they really talking, or just "aping," as it were, language?

    Archive 2007-09-01 josh 2007

  • But are they really talking, or just "aping," as it were, language?

    Can a parrot really talk? (So long, Alex) josh 2007

  • And in places where it wasn't, where we were kind of aping the language of the book because the scenes didn't derive from the original book, it wasn't a foreign language.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • And in places where it wasn't, where we were kind of aping the language of the book because the scenes didn't derive from the original book, it wasn't a foreign language.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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