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as in performer
an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements
that annoying mime on the sidewalk is pretending to be in an invisible box again
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as in gesture
a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling
the speech-impaired patient had to convey his wishes with mime or scribbled notes
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as in to imitate
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior
as a joke, Eric knelt by the dinner table and began miming a dog begging for food
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Recent Examples of mime
Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Everyone is almost always wearing berets and striped shirts, while extras roam the streets in mime makeup.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2025
Someone inevitably ends up acting out a pineapple or accidentally miming their entire life story.
—Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
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Noun
Back in Colombia in the 1990s, then-mayor Antanas Mockus replaced 1,800 traffic cops with just 20 mimes, who used silent performance to mock reckless drivers and praise good behavior.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Everyone is almost always wearing berets and striped shirts, while extras roam the streets in mime makeup.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
In the video, Dunne is seen miming the words from a table at Pitt’s restaurant in Brooklyn as pasta, bread, and wine make the rounds (alas, there’s no visible clams).
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2025
Someone inevitably ends up acting out a pineapple or accidentally miming their entire life story.
—Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mime
Noun
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The action is Seoul’s latest diplomatic gesture to its long-time rival neighbor.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
5 Aug. 2025
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In short, the executive order is essentially a political gesture.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Although Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis had a cutthroat rivalry in Black Swan, life did not imitate art for the actresses, despite Darren Aronofsky‘s best attempts.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
15 Aug. 2025
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The fake pool has been designed to imitate the uppermost twenty feet of the real one as closely as possible, down to the contours of its sides, which are made not from rock but from plastic foam sealed with fibreglass.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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One stuntman on New Amsterdam was directed to pantomime with me but refused.—
Jon Hart,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2025
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It must be said, however, that the performance sensibility is somewhere between English pantomime and a Nickelodeon sitcom.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
15 May 2025
Verb
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This is about weaponizing curiosity to create competitive advantages that AI can't replicate and competitors can't copy.—
B.D. Dalton,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The British already had experience mass-producing cotton calico with prints such as chintz, and Dutch potters in Delft had long mastered the art of copying Chinese blue-and-white ceramics.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Carnival Midway’s cast of trapeze artists, aerialists, jugglers and clowns perform every hour on the half hour, starting at 1:30 p.m. (on weekends, the show kicks off at 11:30a.m.).—
Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Aug. 2025
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Guests were surrounded by a surreal landscape of vanishing walls, floating furniture, and a creepy clown with a menacing smile.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Donald and Melania Trump approved a construction project in June to swap the garden's central lawn with white stone pavers that more closely emulate the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic.—
Kyler Alvord,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Devices like this make privacy a competitive advantage that other companies should emulate.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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But for some, the consequences of AI signal a systemic, dehumanizing transformation, where generative systems mimic not just content, but the entire ecosystem: creator, reviewer, performer, promoter, consumer.—
Emil Steiner,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Versions with straps that mimic the look of a Mary-Jane are also quite popular.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Mime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mime. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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