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mimicry

[mim-ik-ree] / ˈmɪm ɪk ri /




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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

Scientists say the finding offers valuable insight into how mimicry evolves and the ecological functions these adaptations can serve.

From Science Daily Jun. 17, 2026

And luckily I have a skill for mimicry, so I can do that.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 15, 2025

His huge talent for comic sketches, mimicry and song was awarded with similarly huge budgets by grateful commissioners.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

They also engage in what is called motor mimicry.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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 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

In the trickeries and mimicries of court life Bunsen was no adept, and nothing was easier than to outbid him in the price that is paid for royal favors.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller




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