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as in gesture
a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling
the game requires that you use pantomime to communicate an idea
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as in mime
an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements
in ancient Rome pantomimes performed tragic love stories
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Recent Examples of pantomime
Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
Why not encourage the kids to stage their own pantomime for Christmas Day?
—The Week Junior, theweek, 21 Dec. 2024
A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
After calmly letting Larry extrapolate, Jerry pantomimes a short beep.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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Noun
This may seem like a distant toxic pantomime confined to Washington.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2025
Why not encourage the kids to stage their own pantomime for Christmas Day?
—The Week Junior, theweek, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
And so a lot of overqualified actors keep getting stuck pantomiming her presence, deliberately evoking Ripley while reminding us what the series lost when its star finally put the feverish space chases behind her.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
After calmly letting Larry extrapolate, Jerry pantomimes a short beep.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pantomime
Noun
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The image depicts Trump — who is not Catholic — seated on an gilded chair, dressed in white papal vestments and headdress, with one finger raised, in a gesture that evokes Christ and other religious figures’ hand symbols in Christian iconography.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
4 May 2025
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The gesture served as a precursor for the celebration that followed.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
Noun
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Everyone is almost always wearing berets and striped shirts, while extras roam the streets in mime makeup.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2025
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After a random stint as a mime in Paris, Rush got his big break in 1996, starring in Shine as the child-prodigy pianist David Helfgott.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
8 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Trump signed executive orders on the first day of his second term aimed at ending DEI practices in the federal government, prompting multiple legal challenges.—
Judy Kurtz,
The Hill,
30 Apr. 2025
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In North Carolina, lawmakers are expected to sign a bill that would allow the state treasury department to invest up to 5% of public funds into digital currencies.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The Colorado Buffaloes head coach raised his hand and motioned in the air before taking a sip of his water bottle in the clip, shared by uStadium on X. After Shedeur's draft party, Deion posted a video of his son addressing guests with a humble message.—
Natasha Dye,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Fuhrer voted against accepting the report and motioned to rescind the resolution supervisors approved in December, which censured Fuhrer and came with a suite of actions, including blocking him from becoming board chair.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Matthew Davies, 41, was taken into custody on suspicion of assaulting a man with a glass bottle while dressed up as a clown on Oct. 31, 2018, according to a news release issued by the department.—
Vincent Moleski,
Sacbee.com,
8 May 2025
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In the ‘30s and ‘40s, there were all these clowns trying to sell things, and then there was Krinkles the Clown trying to sell cereal [in the ‘50s].—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2025
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“Pantomime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pantomime. Accessed 14 May. 2025.
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