Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined to emulation; rivaling; disposed to compete imitatively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined to emulation; aspiring to competition; rivaling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a tendency to
emulate others;imitative
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Examples
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I will readily admit to have a personal preferences for "emulative" and stories with "subtle invocations", since, in my opinion, they are more personal and more easily provide a genuine worldview & new approaches to the philosophical themes often found in HPL's work.
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I will readily admit to have a personal preferences for "emulative" and stories with "subtle invocations", since, in my opinion, they are more personal and more easily provide a genuine worldview & new approaches to the philosophical themes often found in HPL's work.
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But has Canada always been emulative of the Americans in political dysfunction?
A Southern Look At Canada’s Political Dysfunction « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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But most often it is emulative: Where do you get ideas for best-selling fantasy trilogies, and where can I get me some?
BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Schenectady, or, Where Do You Get Your Ideas? 2010
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But has Canada always been emulative of the Americans in political dysfunction?
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The US will only get out in front of the emulative flow of global commerce by developing the model for a post oil society.
Stephen C. Rose: 10 Reasons Private Cars Will Become Obsolete 2009
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That was the most inane gesture-as-policy (was it supposed to trigger a tide of emulative consumption by the sheeplike masses?) since Gerald Ford tried to whip inflation now with WIN buttons.
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The sound was re-echoed from bank to bank, from precipice to precipice, with emulative thunders; nor was the tumult silent till it rose into the region of eternal snows, which, equally insensible to terrestrial sounds, and unfavorable to animal life, heard the roar in their majestic solitude, but suffered it to die away without a responsive voice.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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Veblen pioneered an analysis of capitalist society as one in which: emulative consumption is pursued for the visible display of wealth and as means of acquiring social status, despite the wasteful use of natural resources it entails.
Neoclassical, institutional, and marxist approaches to the environment-economic relationship 2007
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His bold proposal for universal health care provided by employers -- who would be subsidized by a tax credit paid for by repealing all of Bush's 2001 tax cuts -- has forced his rivals to seem emulative and has burnished his credentials as a Bush critic.
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