mimetic

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"Clicktetrazine dECM-alginate hydrogels for injectable, mechanically mimetic, and biologically active vocal fold biomaterials" by Mika Brown,Hideaki Okuyama, Ling Li, Zhen Yang, Jianyu Li, Maryam Tabrizian and Nicole Li-Jessen was published in Biomaterials.

From Science Daily • Jan. 2, 2026

Our big, warm climate and our wide-open spaces made possible something that earned its own genre: mimetic architecture, whimsical buildings that look like something else, often the thing that they sell.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

The tune was jaunty, full of the cantering rhythms and mimetic horn calls that fit a song about hunting.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2023

At some level, it really, really means that this spoken system and even sign system that we do needs the mimetic system that we create when we gesture.

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2023

“Not chameleon, but it’s a good guess. We thought maybe octopus? They have incredible mimetic capabilities, but it wasn’t that, either.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste