mimicry

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Horror is filled with trend-hopping and mimicry — the genre itself holds a mirror to our cultural anxieties, replicating them with chilling, hyperbolic intensity.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

So can the capital's wildlife compare to the broadcaster's encounters with mountain gorillas in Rwanda, the mimicry of a lyrebird in Australia or a blue whale breaching beside his small boat?

From BBC • Dec. 18, 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

But these long, hot days are just mimicry.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

She turned to him, horrified, not knowing why, and cheerfully he twisted his own face into a mimicry of the mommet.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry