mimicry

Interest in the ruling has been high among voice actors in Japan, who worry AI mimicry of the tool of their trade will go a long way toward the decline of the storied industry.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

They’ve discovered that AI, drawing on the huge troves of speech available on social media and other online sources, can now produce highly convincing mimicry of local accents from all over the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Without the right support, what starts as unconscious mimicry of peers’ behavior in childhood can exact a painful toll as time goes on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

There's no cash-in on the drum and bass revival, and no mimicry of the cutting-edge productions of PinkPantheress and Charli XCX.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Therefore I propose that someone with a keen sense of the theatrical, a talent for mimicry and improvising dialogue—a playwright, perhaps?—be engaged as an understudy to the ghost, as it were.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Berta Ruck

With mimicries of dance she wakes The lordly gallery’s silent floor, And climbing up on tiptoe, makes The old-world mirror smile once more.

From Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn

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 Sir Max Beerbohm