mimicry

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

Arday said some errors in his early academic work arose because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to make sense of information.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Scientists say the finding offers valuable insight into how mimicry evolves and the ecological functions these adaptations can serve.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

Later, explaining to his mom why he doesn’t have any friends his own age, Valdi purses his lips in a mimicry of the older men who would engulf him — a touchingly sad little detail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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

Oh, no, they are very amusing, with their mimicries of grown people, and mock solemnities.

From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald

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

The little mimicries of Albert Jekyl, as he described Mrs. Ricketts, the few depreciatory remarks of Lady Hester concerning her, would have outweighed her worth had her character been a cornucopia of goodness.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever