impersonator

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Examples of imitator

imitator
Both initiator and imitator accumulate the frequencies of uses and of successes of each of their vowels.
Later the original innovator decided to enter, possibly to take advantage of the weak marketing strength of the imitator in that period.
It is assumed that the imitator moves toward full realization of his share at the rate of 100 per cent per year following imitation.
In the late seventeenth century, it had few, if any, imitators.
There is considerable pressure on musicians to aim to be no more than very good imitators.
Rate at which the imitator moves toward his market share.
But imitator's varieties will also acquire their potential market share only over a period of time.
If we cannot distinguish between original and imitation in such cases, we must always concede that an imitator may have been at work.
Given the researchers' exemption, imitators can introduce rival varieties with a time lag.
The business succeeded and soon there were many imitators.
And perhaps they were right, for there were many imitators.
Two agents are randomly chosen from a sufficiently large population, one as an initiator, the other as an imitator.
The 18th and 19th century "revivalists," naturally enough, tended to portray their opponents as rigid and unthinking imitators.
In this sense, he was neither an innovator nor an imitator.
The ease with which forgeries could be carried out was far too tempting for adept imitators.
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