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mimicry

[mim-ik-ree] / ˈmɪm ɪk ri /




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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

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

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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