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coacting

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present participle of coact

as in imitating

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OpenAI denied intentionally imitating Johansson’s voice and later withdrew the feature.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Speaking of the oversized, the collection’s Handloom Cardigan fits the bill but spares you from imitating a balloon, courtesy of those vertical stripes (also known as the oldest optical trick in the fashion book).

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

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The twist was that Japanese denim-spinners weren’t mimicking the denims of the Eighties.

— Matt Alt, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
The biggest challenges, its designers say, were mimicking the fade from crisp morning rays to bright noon light to a soft evening glow, and creating a sense of depth to conjure the distant sky.

— Emma Barker, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of mimicking

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Critics and fanboy media thrashed Supergirl not just for its Guardians of the Galaxy touchstones, but also for aping Mad Max.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 June 2026
For Shorts, the label will appear as a small overlay at the bottom of the video itself, although that will add to the already cluttered look of the TikTok-aping Shorts.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026

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Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am, representing the 20% of Israel’s population that is Arab, have ten seats.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 18 Oct. 2026
The researchers found that representing this zone as several kilometers wide, rather than as a narrow boundary, helped their model reproduce the observed retreat and thinning from 1996 to 2023.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

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By the time of the witch trial, the sacred building stood stripped of its roofing and outer masonry—a fleshless skeleton; its giant west window glassless, miming a stone scream.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Simmons celebrated by miming urinating, game footage shared by ESPN College Football shows.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of miming

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