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  • noun Plural form of mimic.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mimic.

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Examples

  • Leader of the opposition Mariano Rajoy says that if the Prime Minister of Spain mimics Sarkozy and brings in a 3 strikes regime, he will take the whole issue to court.

    p2pnet World Headlines – June 3, 2009 2009

  • The Massachuttes model that this legislation mimics, is NOT real health care reform but plays into the hands of the Inusrance industry.

    Obama praises first health care bill passage 2009

  • Stevesie's artificial brain mimics how our brains store and retrieve memories, constructing an associative network of news and keyword relations.

    Internet News: Analysing News 2008

  • Nerissa is a good specimen of a common genus of characters; she is a clever confidential waiting-woman, who has caught a little of her lady's elegance and romance; she affects to be lively and sententious, falls in love, and makes her favor conditional on the fortune of the caskets, and in short mimics her mistress with good emphasis and discretion.

    Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827

  • ConAgra says competitor's label mimics Swiss MissOMAHA, Neb.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • But it mimics the German words and fits the melodic line perfectly.

    NYT > Home Page By ANTHONY TOMMASINI 2010

  • Plain English, when that title mimics the title of his own political National Party email newsletter?

    ScreenTalk 2009

  • The sound of the word mimics a sound in the real world kp à 'sound of hitting sth. hard [e.g. bone, wood] ɔwĩ ũ̀ ɔ̀dziri itì kpà he-hit him stick head IDPH' he hit him with a stick on the head kpà! 'tsoààà' sound of a waterfall 'ndu te mìfu tsoàààà water PROG SC-fall IDPH' the water is coming down tsoààà 'gbíím̀' sound of explosion 's ɔ "gbíím̀"!

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows markdi 2009

  • Presumably somebody has drawn up a list of possible Verimark "mimics" - companies where controlling shareholders could score big time by expropriating minority shareholders on their terms.

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • Sirtris cofounder David Sinclair's lab, doesn't rule out the possibility that the fluorescent tag mimics a natural SIRT1 cofactor.

    Scientific American 2010

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