mimetic

Example Sentences

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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

Prince, a professor in Waterloo's Department of Chemical Engineering, utilized these human-tissue mimetic hydrogels to promote the growth of small-scale tumour replicas derived from donated tumour tissue.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

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

My DNA gave the subject his mimetic quality in the first place.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste