mimetic

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I envision social media accounts crammed with athletes’ selfies in front of Randy’s Doughnuts in Inglewood, an example of mimetic architecture — where the buildings look like the things they sell.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

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

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

But Magritte suggests that art is always mimetic, if not of the external world then at the very least of consciousness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

The mimetic fabric was only responding to him.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste