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mimicry

[mim-ik-ree] / ˈmɪm ɪk ri /




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Interest in the ruling has been high among voice actors in Japan, who worry AI mimicry of the tool of their trade will go a long way toward the decline of the storied industry.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Birkenstock is far from the only fashion brand locked in battles with mass retailers over design mimicry.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

Next the FDA should build a clear regulatory path that treats clinical results, not structural mimicry, as the standard for approval in relevant eCP cases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Jam’s mouth fell open at the mimicry, and she covered it with a hand.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

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

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

Foote was evading all law and order by his inimitable mimicries at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket; and for these performances at his "scandal-shop" is very properly brought up before Mr. Censor's Court.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by G. M. Godden

The result has not been, as is usual in such alien mimicries, a mere success of curiosity.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes




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