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Recent Examples of mimicry
Such mimicry can be seen all across their recent output.
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Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
Though the data doesn't specify how or why somebody was trespassing, social media mimicry is a growing concern for the agency.
—Manuela López Restrepo, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025
The video’s call letter opening, spot-on mimicry of broadcast news and poor video quality are hilarious and touching.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Its ability to curl and twist 360 degrees adds to its impression of biological mimicry, moving with a fluidity that almost blurs its mechanical nature.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2025
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Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
Though the data doesn't specify how or why somebody was trespassing, social media mimicry is a growing concern for the agency.
—Manuela López Restrepo, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025
The video’s call letter opening, spot-on mimicry of broadcast news and poor video quality are hilarious and touching.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Its ability to curl and twist 360 degrees adds to its impression of biological mimicry, moving with a fluidity that almost blurs its mechanical nature.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mimicry
Noun
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Even with Ted Lasso on hiatus, Apple TV+ continues to be a presence in this category; no doubt, voters loved seeing Hollywood execs (and egomaniacal stars) get skewered on the streamer's movie-industry satire, The Studio.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Like a good martini, the novel blends the zesty gin of satire with vermouthy fruitiness and lemon twists of sharp observation.—
Rob Kyff,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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There is non-stop laughter from audiences from beginning to end.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2025
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But his administration’s steps, large and small, from attacking universities to immigrants to expert advisors, aimed at destroying competence and honesty as guiding principles for the U.S., will in the end yield only tears, not laughter.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
23 Apr. 2025
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George Clooney received his Sardi’s caricature Thursday after making his Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck this spring.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2025
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The conventional wisdom that artists are a handful yields a singular character in Cheyenne but also some clichéd caricatures.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Apr. 2025
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Mendoza didn’t begin performing until 2016, although she had been involved in the backstage production side of burlesque for some time before then.—
J.M. Banks,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2025
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Elsewhere, Abercrombie’s pastorals are almost like burlesques of plein air painting.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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The order is so blatant in its attempt to rewrite history that to call it Orwellian would be something of an insult to Big Brother.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
29 Apr. 2025
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Earbuds have become the pedestrian’s car stereo, a kind of acoustic Bubble Wrap shielding us from noise or chatter or insults and makes obsolete a once-fundamental New York experience: the casual interaction.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Mimicry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mimicry. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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