mannerisms
Example Sentences
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"The technology to replicate a person's face, voice, and mannerisms has advanced faster than the safeguards around it, creating a gap that bad actors are already exploiting."
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Anthony Ippolito plays a young Sylvester Stallone in I Play Rocky, and was praised by audience members at the festival for capturing Stallone's posture, mannerisms and speech.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
In “The Unknown,” he portrays not only Elliott but all the people he interacts with, and differentiates them crisply with convincing accents but without costume changes or flashy mannerisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
She has Nina’s mannerisms detailed down to their minutia.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
My door slammed open, and in walked First Sergeant Anderson, a high school senior with an impressively premature five-o’clock shadow, a scruffy voice, and the posture and mannerisms of a bulldog.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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