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mimicry

[mim-ik-ree] / ˈmɪm ɪk ri /




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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

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

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

She uncorked the last of her father's mimicry solutions and pressed it to his mouth.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

And there seemed to resound in her mind echoes of Captain Ross's voice at the Honeycomb—or were they echoes of Mrs. Newton's mimicries of Captain Ross?

From The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

The last evening spent by Hetty in the drawing-room at the Hall was that one on which she had entertained the company with her mimicries.

From Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn by Rosa Mulholland




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