mimicry
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Scientists say the finding offers valuable insight into how mimicry evolves and the ecological functions these adaptations can serve.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Generative AI is the same: mere mimicry, devoid of the humanity that makes art . . . well, art.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
And luckily I have a skill for mimicry, so I can do that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
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
They also engage in what is called motor mimicry.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
The pattern of the wallpaper blamelessly repeats itself from wainscote to cornice; and the pictures are immobile and changeless within their glazed frames—faint, flat mimicries of life.
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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
There is, in fact, something of a street-boy in some of our late more literary mimicries.
From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
Vocabulary lists containing mimicry
Ecology - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems - Introductory
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Evolutionary Biology - Natural Selection - Middle School
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Evolutionary Biology - Adaptation
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