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- verb Present participle of
ape .
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Examples
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What’s the point in aping Apple’s colors (as people claim)?
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Also, the classicist you’re aping is J.D. Beazley.
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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
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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
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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
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When Masquerade was published, one prominent magazine claimed I was "aping" my male betters.
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But are they really talking, or just "aping," as it were, language?
Archive 2007-09-01 josh 2007
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But are they really talking, or just "aping," as it were, language?
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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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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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