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as in performer
an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements
that annoying mime on the sidewalk is pretending to be in an invisible box again
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as in gesture
a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling
the speech-impaired patient had to convey his wishes with mime or scribbled notes
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as in to imitate
to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior
as a joke, Eric knelt by the dinner table and began miming a dog begging for food
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Recent Examples of mime
Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Everyone is almost always wearing berets and striped shirts, while extras roam the streets in mime makeup.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
One of the others mimed palming the girl’s rear while the third snapped a photo.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Noun
Back in Colombia in the 1990s, then-mayor Antanas Mockus replaced 1,800 traffic cops with just 20 mimes, who used silent performance to mock reckless drivers and praise good behavior.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 7 May 2025
Everyone is almost always wearing berets and striped shirts, while extras roam the streets in mime makeup.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Verb
Someone inevitably ends up acting out a pineapple or accidentally miming their entire life story.
—Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 3 June 2025
One of the others mimed palming the girl’s rear while the third snapped a photo.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mime
Noun
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Some posed for photos, others made rude gestures, and many simply stared.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
27 July 2025
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Before Lopez could really respond to the gesture, the skirt fell to the ground, leaving Lopez on stage in a shiny pair of gold underwear.—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
27 July 2025
Verb
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Perhaps the Lake Bluff streakers heard of those at CLC and wanted to imitate them.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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The park’s hub-and-spoke design has been copied by parks around the world, but the caliber of Disneyland’s craftsmanship wasn’t easily imitated.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
18 July 2025
Noun
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One stuntman on New Amsterdam was directed to pantomime with me but refused.—
Jon Hart,
HollywoodReporter,
3 June 2025
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It must be said, however, that the performance sensibility is somewhere between English pantomime and a Nickelodeon sitcom.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
15 May 2025
Verb
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But its decision to copy a Chinese artificial intelligence lab in 2025 in an effort to compete with OpenAI backfired, forcing the company to overhaul its AI strategy.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
29 July 2025
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Any buyer willing to front the resources to buy Chrome is not likely to be interested in perfectly copying everything Google has done, and would rather compete on its own terms according to its own business interests.—
Alissa Cooper,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 July 2025
Noun
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Visitors can take part in the action at the on-site museum where 700 pieces of clown memorabilia are displayed in every nook and cranny, some even suspended from the ceiling.—
Rebecca Deurlein,
Southern Living,
22 July 2025
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Pepe the Frog became political, then hate symbol, during 2016 election The frog doodle in clown accessories that flashes in the video is known as Pepe the Frog, and its appearance in Trump's social media posts has sparked interest before.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
Verb
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Run by Bushwick locals and brothers Max and Spencer Nelson and friend Jordan Dubey, the pizzeria aims to emulate your favorite dive bar, but with better food.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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Another consideration is insulation: Lots of it, easily twice the code minimum, to emulate the thick walls of a mudbrick hut and slow heat transfer.—
Sam Bloch,
Time,
28 July 2025
Verb
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While many dogs love playing with any ball, as the chase and catch mimics their hunting instincts, the color and texture of a tennis ball specifically capture a canine's attention, according to Rover.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Aug. 2025
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To simulate the harshest conditions, Gore’s environmental chamber can mimic nearly any condition on the globe, such as rain rates up to 22 inches per hour, hurricane-level windspeeds and relative humidity.—
Tim Newcomb,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Mime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mime. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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