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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
Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
The actors were mimes who were in costume, while the background plates were shot in Africa.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Aug. 2025
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Dell mimed the physical act of branding cattle to indicate the importance of loyalty.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Later, half of them mime shooting the others, who are retreating with their hands up.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
The actors were mimes who were in costume, while the background plates were shot in Africa.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
Who’s decided that there will be no tree on this country road and that all props — carrots, bags and baskets, whip — will be mimed in thin air?
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Dell mimed the physical act of branding cattle to indicate the importance of loyalty.
—Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mime
Noun
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In its final form, the sky-high pad spanned a whopping 13,300 square feet across two levels, with four bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a gym, a massage room, wine storage, and plenty of sprawling gallery walls to display the performer’s art collection.—
Mekita Rivas,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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Unlike the Super Bowl 59 performer, however, Thomas is not a household name.—
Bebe Hodges,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Nov. 2025
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This magical moment is a gesture of love and gratitude that lights up a smile brighter than the most grandiose display of holiday decorations, making every stressful minute of holiday gift shopping completely worth it.—
Footwear News,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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Byrne tends to favor movement that’s kinetic but a little crooked—the sorts of blunt gestures that, theoretically, anyone can do.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Art imitating life a little bit.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual patterns like flashes and clicks.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Trafalgar also has entities that produce pantomimes, distribute live event cinema and sell tickets in the West End.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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Talk of a solution—of two states, of a confederation, of nearly any prospect for a secure and free mode of coexistence—has long been dismissed as either an ingenuous assertion of faith or a cynical pantomime, an empty gesture toward a future no one expects to see.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Our city should copy the pay parking system used in Santa Barbara, which even has a phone app that enables you to conveniently add time remotely to your car’s parking meter instead of having to trudge back to your car.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Nov. 2025
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But tension from within the sheriff’s office boiled over and reached the public in November 2024, when then-Chief Deputy Kevin Canty resigned, sent McFadden a harsh resignation letter and copied the entire sheriff’s office to the email.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The sibling filmmaking duo spent most of the 2010s making a colossal two-part movie adaptation of King’s 1,138-page horror opus about a shapeshifting clown who terrorizes the small town of Derry, Maine.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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The woman dressed as a spooky ringmaster while her husband played the part of a creepy clown.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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At a distance, emulating the success of household names can feel like a herculean task.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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A lot of creatives emulate things, and that’s cool in the beginning.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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In the past, literary and pop-culture-themed rooms have popped in hotels around the country — including designs that mimic Monica and Rachel's Friends apartment, an all-pink Barbie's Dream House room, a winter wonderland from Elf and a chocolate fantasy from Wonka.—
Sonal Dutt,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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In a series of high-pressure, high-temperature experiments designed to mimic the fiery beginnings of a young planet, scientists recreated the extreme environment where such worlds' molten rock and hydrogen gas interact.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Mime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mime. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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