mimetic
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Prince, a professor in Waterloo's Department of Chemical Engineering, utilized these human-tissue mimetic hydrogels to promote the growth of small-scale tumour replicas derived from donated tumour tissue.
From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024
At some level, it really, really means that this spoken system and even sign system that we do needs the mimetic system that we create when we gesture.
From Salon • Jul. 8, 2023
But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
The truth is not arrived at by purely mimetic means.
From New York Times • May 24, 2021
“Not chameleon, but it’s a good guess. We thought maybe octopus? They have incredible mimetic capabilities, but it wasn’t that, either.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Vocabulary lists containing mimetic
The Suffix -ic, Part 4
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"Hamlet's Dull Revenge" by René Girard
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