emulate

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To copy or imitate, especially a person.

People are endlessly fascinating, even if you'd never want to emulate them.

The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.

To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.

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