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mimicry

[mim-ik-ree] / ˈmɪm ɪk ri /




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Generative AI is the same: mere mimicry, devoid of the humanity that makes art . . . well, art.

From Salon Apr. 17, 2026

"A novel aspect of the paper was our use of powerful mass spectrometry sequencing to identify molecular mimicry between the adenovirus vector protein and the PF4 culprit target," she says.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2026

Our recent research tested whether AI systems’ consciousness claims are mere mimicry.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 25, 2025

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

She uncorked the last of her father's mimicry solutions and pressed it to his mouth.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

There is, in fact, something of a street-boy in some of our late more literary mimicries.

From Hearts of Controversy by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

In the trickeries and mimicries of court life Bunsen was no adept, and nothing was easier than to outbid him in the price that is paid for royal favors.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

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 Beerbohm, Max, Sir




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