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Recent Examples of mimicry
But the practices diffused, through mimicry, to the lower orders.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Such mimicry can be seen all across their recent output.
—Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
His library design is genuinely superb mimicry, an excellent set that feels midway between real Erich Mendelsohn and Richard Neutra projects.
—Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
Haldar and her team would be the first to test directly for animal mimicry of intransitive actions.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2025
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Such mimicry can be seen all across their recent output.
—Isaiah Colbert, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2025
His library design is genuinely superb mimicry, an excellent set that feels midway between real Erich Mendelsohn and Richard Neutra projects.
—Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
Haldar and her team would be the first to test directly for animal mimicry of intransitive actions.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mimicry
Noun
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Though Duck Soup is often lauded as a satire of the vagaries of international geopolitics, its greatness doesn’t depend on justification from serious beard-strokers.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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Battlestar Galactica watch on prime video The Boys Years: 2019-present Length: 4 seasons, 32 episodes Creator: Eric Kripke One of Prime’s biggest hits is this satire of superhero culture based on the graphic novel by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
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But to last 1,000 shows is a true testament to what the world really needs right now, which is love, laughter and light.—
Lawrence Yee,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Death Takes Me, instead, suggests that personal grief and political anger can find expression, too, through ambiguity and irony—and even laughter.—
Nicolás Medina Mora,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2025
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Aduba holds everything together with a deft turn, refusing to let Cordelia Cupp’s on-paper oddities ever become a caricature.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Mar. 2025
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Questions about whether making a movie in which little people are treated like retrograde caricatures was a cool thing to do in this day and age.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 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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Expect a heavy-hitting lineup of live music, rotating DJs, and burlesque shows that will carry you well into the late night hours.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2025
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The dispute stems from last year’s feud wherein Drake and Lamar traded increasingly personal and unverified insults in a series of songs.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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Tariffs on Canadian exports and repeated insults by President Donald Trump about Canada becoming the 51st state have Canadians pushing back with a term hockey fans may be familiar with.—
Jalen Williams,
USA TODAY,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Mimicry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mimicry. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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