imitates

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to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something:

Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past.

They produce artificial chemicals which exactly imitate particular natural ones.

to copy someone’s speech or behavior, or to copy something as a model:

My four-year-old daughter is always trying to imitate her older sister.

He imitated her accent perfectly.