MIMICRIES Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

mimicries

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plural of mimicry

as in pasquinades

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Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Did celebrated Italian auteur Nanni Moretti, known at home and abroad for his leftist political satires and introspective human comedies, just make his first straight-up soap opera?

— Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

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Mathews gathered his belongings and began walking toward his vehicle, but after crossing to the other side of a park fence, an exchange of insults between the pair caused a physical confrontation.

— Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
That would be a rich coda to the audio leak, considering that Oaxacans received some of the nastiest insults.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

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