mimicry
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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
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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
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But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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.
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