Vocabulary
mimic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
imitate (someone or their actions or words), especially in order to entertain or ridicule.
Urdu meaning
مذاق اڑانے کےلئے نقل کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- To understand how these betting rackets operate, we first need to examine the legitimate practices they mimic to create an appearance of credibility.
- While they mimic the price action of real assets like gold or oil, there is no guarantee the numbers are not stacked against the user.
- Just days before the ZelenskyTrump presser, Meta announced it was ending key parts of its third-party fact-checking programme and rolling out community moderation tools that mimic the model introduced by X.
- His mercurial and whimsical personality makes it uncertain whether his second term will just mimic the first and offer more of the same in foreign policy.
Curator example
“she mimicked Eileen’s pedantic voice”
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