mimicry
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A few blocks north of Canal Street, where tourists pick up fake designer bags for a fraction of what the genuine articles retail for, another kind of luxury mimicry has emerged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Arday said some errors arose because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to make sense of information.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
He said that some errors in his early academic work were because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to understand information.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
To Bateman, no amount of convincing mimicry changes the fact that an AI figure has never actually experienced the emotions it’s portraying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Bull mocked, but a glance from Lillian stopped his mimicry cold.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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 Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
Foote was evading all law and order by his inimitable mimicries at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket; and for these performances at his "scandal-shop" is very properly brought up before Mr. Censor's Court.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by G. M. Godden
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