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aping - definition and meaning
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verb ape .
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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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