mimicry
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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
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
To Bateman, no amount of convincing mimicry changes the fact that an AI figure has never actually experienced the emotions it’s portraying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Bull mocked, but a glance from Lillian stopped his mimicry cold.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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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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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
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
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
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