Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be emulated; capable of attainment by emulous effort; worthy of emulation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Capable of being emulated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Worthy of
emulation . - adjective computing, nonstandard That can be
emulated .
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Examples
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The morally exceptional, beneficent person, then, may be laudable and emulable, yet neither a moral saint nor a moral hero.
The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics Beauchamp, Tom 2008
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In the early republic, creating a life-sized portrait was almost as important as obtaining a subject's exact facial features; a gigantic statue was literally larger-than-life and therefore less emulable for the common man.
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Mr. Ehrenpreis closes with a quote from Leviticus: another emulable stroke.
Geography Lawler, Justus George 1979
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Because he represents hope and because he has the emulable qualities of:
LearnHub Activities 2009
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