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- noun Obsolete spelling of
mimicry .
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Examples
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Scott Walker's plans for reining in public-sector unions, equate him with Hosni Mubarak and Adolf Hitler, in disgusting mimickry of some Tea Party members' inflammatory linkage between Obama and the evil dictators of history.
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It was supremely accomplished as a technical performance, as a piece of inspired mimickry, and as a séance summoning up a sympathetically refashioned ghost of someone who is not, in fact, dead.
Bafta missed their chance to break The Artist's silence 2012
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He had a knack for languages and mimickry, which he practiced by drawing from the extensive movie library Hunter had supplied.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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He had a knack for languages and mimickry, which he practiced by drawing from the extensive movie library Hunter had supplied.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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He had a knack for languages and mimickry, which he practiced by drawing from the extensive movie library Hunter had supplied.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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He had a knack for languages and mimickry, which he practiced by drawing from the extensive movie library Hunter had supplied.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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It usually occurs because of “molecular mimickry,” which is where the body confuses some of its own tissue with a foreign invader.
The UltraMind Solution M.D. Mark Hyman 2009
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We saw each other, and in the back of the head, there must be a little bit of mimickry.
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We may not be so surprised to see such mimickry of blacks in 1909, but I think that when compared to these pictures of college students at race-themed parties in 2007, it might make for some interesting discussion of humor, mimickry, racism, and the notion of progress… especially as Halloween approaches.
COMPARING RACIAL MIMICKRY IN 1909 AND 2007 » Sociological Images 2008
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I do think this sort of behavior would spread easily by mimickry.
Structuration, Synthetic Worlds-Style: LOTRO and Emotes 2007
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