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

This mimicry was at the heart of his brilliant comedy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

"But you get the idea," clearly enjoying his mimicry as much as I did.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2025

This AI slop, this soulless mimicry of human life, is accelerating the planet’s demise.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

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