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Like remdesivir, favipiravir works by mimicking a building block of the virus’s genetic material, RNA.

It also focuses more on content about staycations, or recipes one can cook to mimic being someplace new.

From Digiday

That observing setup mimicked the way astronomers plan to probe the atmospheres of Earthlike exoplanets as they pass in front of their stars, filtering out some starlight.

Next, clinicians should look for other explanations, conditions that could mimic brain death but are actually reversible.

The multimedia brand mimics the experience of Wolfe Pereira and his co-founders, all of whom grew up in multicultural households.

From Ozy

When my hair gets long enough I kid myself I can mimic the glorious tumbling fringe of “the Rachel” sometimes.

But under what moral principle must a nation mimic both the madness and the misdirection of its enemy?

The results: Even moderate MDMA doses in conditions that mimic hot, crowded, social settings could be lethal to rats.

The team designed over 40 themed soundscapes that mimic environments, all of which are free to download.

He slowed down the action at times for effect; he jolted the camera to mimic the jittery imperfection of a documentary.

For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.

Very often the little ones mimic it in fun, and children's games, most times, are copies of their elders' workaday doings.

Samuel cried at the loss of his pretty kite, and Charles Duran was mean enough to mimic the boy whom he had thus injured.

That monarch, easily the first comedian of his time, allowed no rivals on the mimic stage, and it languished during his reign.

It was almost as if, for a brief interval, the mimic was the scholar, though always with the drop of ridicule or mischief added.

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On this page you'll find 106 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mimic, such as: mime, actor, caricaturist, comedian, copycat, and imitator.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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