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mimicry

[mim-ik-ree] / ˈmɪm ɪk ri /




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To Bateman, no amount of convincing mimicry changes the fact that an AI figure has never actually experienced the emotions it’s portraying.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

"A novel aspect of the paper was our use of powerful mass spectrometry sequencing to identify molecular mimicry between the adenovirus vector protein and the PF4 culprit target," she says.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2026

That AI can, for a moment, fool our ears is a testament to its power as mimicry.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 10, 2025

But these long, hot days are just mimicry.

From Salon May 2, 2025

Bull mocked, but a glance from Lillian stopped his mimicry cold.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

In private, her character is less appalling, though she is noted for her impudent mimicries of Moran & Mack, Maurice Chevalier, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Groucho Marx.

From Time Magazine Archive

But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there seemed to resound in her mind echoes of Captain Ross's voice at the Honeycomb—or were they echoes of Mrs. Newton's mimicries of Captain Ross?

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta

Foote was evading all law and order by his inimitable mimicries at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket; and for these performances at his "scandal-shop" is very properly brought up before Mr. Censor's Court.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.

In the trickeries and mimicries of court life Bunsen was no adept, and nothing was easier than to outbid him in the price that is paid for royal favors.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)




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