as in to mimic
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In August 2017, a giant inflatable chicken designed to mimic Trump's features drew widespread media attention when staged near the White House as a form of protest, garnering viral interest on social media.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025 -
Monoclonal antibodies are proteins manufactured in a lab and mimic the antibodies the body naturally creates when fighting an infection.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
25 June 2025
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Fun factoid: Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) talking on the shoe phone has been parodied by many comedians over the years.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Dawn of the Dead has been parodied and referenced many times since, including Shaun of the Dead, the video game series Dead Rising, and a remake that's good enough to appear later on this list, but none of its successors quite captured the level of dread and malaise the original does.—
James Grebey,
Time,
20 June 2025
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Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 June 2025
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Sean Solo’s TikToks also satirize how a Hongdae man approaches women of different ethinicities and nationalities.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
5 June 2025
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But as these systems gained the ability to imitate reasoning, planning, and decision-making among options, emergent behaviors began raising red flags.—
Hamilton Mann,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Some fireworks transcend the standard pops and booms to imitate a non-fiery object.—
Ethan Wolin,
Sacbee.com,
28 June 2025
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Students wonder if the federal government will target California, which passed its law in 2001.—
Jaweed Kaleem,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2025
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On Monday, Iran fired missiles targeting Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar -- the largest U.S. military base in the region, raising concerns about escalation.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
23 June 2025
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That physicality comes in the form of striking, exaggerated, and caricatured animation straight out of the golden age of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery cartoons.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
11 June 2025
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New York City, with its high concentration of Wall Street finance bros, is a perfect setting to caricature people who score their dates on a spreadsheet.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2025
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Instead of trying to ape a classic 16-bit console on modern hardware, why not develop the game properly on the original console?—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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Banijay creative exec Lucas Green recently raised concerns that YouTubers aping traditional formats are bad for business but Hugill disagreed.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
14 Apr. 2025
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In January, Native Americans alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were harassing tribal members.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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But with that brief wave of hope came new footage on Twitter every night of the NYPD acting like bad cops out of a Harvey Keitel flick: cops harassing peaceful crowds, cops kettling activists, cops literally driving a car into a crowd of protestors.—
Maris Kreizman,
Rolling Stone,
24 June 2025
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“Take off (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/take%20off%20%28on%29. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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