Word: mimic
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...House masters, tutors and fellow housemates, to dine regularly in their dining hall, to conveniently utilize House common spaces at all hours of the day. For these students, DeWolfe is not a good fit and it never will be. An isolated block of six apartments in DeWolfe can never mimic the intimacy and tradition that living within an actual House provides. Making DeWolfe housing purely elective will end the days of forcing Harvard students into overflow when a traditional House setting is what they desire and what they’ve been promised...
...evading his pursuers), to my jaded eye, is his barely containable male vanity, his appetite for self-drama and his closet passion for the limelight." Faux Bin Ladens, particularly those born outside of the privileges and entitlements the real one inherited, may find that a tough act to mimic...
...Hopefully, we’ll set an atmosphere with our decorations and the music we play that will mimic some of the things that happened last year, when [people] would go up to do a sexual favor for someone to get a prize,” Egan said...
...season approaches, CDC officials say they expect the number of suspected anthrax cases to rise, since flu symptoms mimic those of anthrax...
...producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were aiming for with this 10-hr. World War II mini-series (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.). Judged on apparent realism, it earns them. It effectively borrows the jerky, chaotic camera techniques that Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (which Hanks starred in) used to mimic the soldiers' confused, terrified perspective. It is based closely on historian Stephen Ambrose's book about Easy Company, an elite paratroop unit that had the dubious luck to land knee-deep in key moments of the war in Europe, from D-day to the Battle of the Bulge...