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

It does, though, probe some fascinating ideas, like the peculiar ownership that fans feel toward a team and its players — a level of mimetic engagement that theater rarely achieves, Broadway musicals excepted.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2021

This is exactly what we were all hoping for: a person with mimetic capabilities.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste