mimetic
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I envision social media accounts crammed with athletes’ selfies in front of Randy’s Doughnuts in Inglewood, an example of mimetic architecture — where the buildings look like the things they sell.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
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
The tune was jaunty, full of the cantering rhythms and mimetic horn calls that fit a song about hunting.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023
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
“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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