Create
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, the future human civilisation is portrayed as vegetarian and disgusted by the idea of eating animals; however, they do create dishes which imitate the taste of meat.
Source: Veganopia -
Stock Sound Effects: "The Walrus Hunt" makes use of a wind machine to create snow storm sounds and splashing water to imitate an Eskimo in a kayak.
Source: Music / Eskimo - Ishvalans were prejudiced against alchemists even before the genocide started since according to their religion, only their god Ishval has the power to create and destroy things, and attempting to imitate this is both blasphemous and against the natural order.
Cite this Source
Imitate and Create. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/create/imitate
Create & Imitate. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/create/imitate>.
Imitate or Create. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/create/imitate.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "create" and "imitate" have occurred on timeline