1.   Because acetylcholine is the endogenous agonist in mammalian small bowel in vivo, its cholinesterase resistant equivalent, carbachol, was used to mimic in vivo conditions.

2.   Because ALS can sometimes mimic other conditions in its early stages, many victims, including McDonnell, have trouble getting an accurate diagnosis.

3.   Park and crew chief Paul Andrews worked through several configurations in an attempt to mimic conditions experienced at Talladega last fall.

4.   She questions, as any decent person would, the appropriateness of mimicking conditions that real people struggle with.

5.   The laser, the National Ignition Facility, is designed to mimic some conditions at the heart of an exploding hydrogen bomb.

6.   They were placed in an incubator that mimics the conditions inside a woman and, within days, three appeared to develop promisingly.

7.   To force a bulb means to mimic the conditions of nature just enough to fool the poor thing into blooming early.