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On Sept. 25, utilities will start bidding at auction for allowances, which they can later sell -- mimicking the so-called cap-and-trade programs that effectively reduced acid rain in the 1990s.

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  1. transitive verb To copy or imitate closely, especially in speech, expression, and gesture; ape.
  2. transitive verb To copy or imitate so as to ridicule; mock: always mimicking the boss. See Synonyms at imitate.
  3. transitive verb To resemble closely; simulate: an insect that mimics a twig.
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  • It's not slavishly mimicking -- although Al is trying to get the hairdo going -- it's not a slavish mimicry. —  Janine Benyus shares nature's designs
  • One of the nearby parrots cackled something in Spanish, mimicking Menos and his prisoner. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-02 - February
  • On Sept. 25, utilities will start bidding at auction for allowances, which they can later sell -- mimicking the so-called cap-and-trade programs that effectively reduced acid rain in the 1990s. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • "Her findings suggest that if we have therapies that mimic dietary restriction, we could better predict which tumors would respond to those dietary restriction-mimicking drugs and which ones would not," says Whitehead Member David Sabatini. —  THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • "Her findings suggest that if we have therapies that mimic dietary restriction, we could better predict which tumors would respond to those dietary restriction-mimicking drugs and which ones would not," says Sabatini. —  THE MEDICAL NEWS
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