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
Arday said some errors in his early academic work arose because of his autism, as he relied on using mimicry to make sense of information.
From BBC ● 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
Later, explaining to his mom why he doesn’t have any friends his own age, Valdi purses his lips in a mimicry of the older men who would engulf him — a touchingly sad little detail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
They also engage in what is called motor mimicry.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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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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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The result has not been, as is usual in such alien mimicries, a mere success of curiosity.
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
There is, in fact, something of a street-boy in some of our late more literary mimicries.
From Hearts of Controversy by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
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