mimicry

They’ve discovered that AI, drawing on the huge troves of speech available on social media and other online sources, can now produce highly convincing mimicry of local accents from all over the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Without the right support, what starts as unconscious mimicry of peers’ behavior in childhood can exact a painful toll as time goes on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

He said that some errors in his early academic work were because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to understand information.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

There's no cash-in on the drum and bass revival, and no mimicry of the cutting-edge productions of PinkPantheress and Charli XCX.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

They also engage in what is called motor mimicry.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

It may be a particular trait and accent in poetry, and the public, weary of the mimicries, begin to dislike the original.

From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang

Here, no doubt, we see quaint mimicries of the mother's fashion of control, but they seem, too, to indicate a movement in the direction of self-control.

From Children's Ways by James Sully