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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mimicking" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly because "mimicking" is a gerund or present participle and does not require an article like "a."
Example: "His mimicking of the teacher was spot on."
Alternatives: "an imitation" or "a copycat act."
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The pitching coaches will stand and watch him as he goes through a series of drills, a bunny hop on his right leg, a mimicking of his motion.
Some see the ideology and techniques of many modern political revolutions and authoritarian regimes as either a legacy or a mimicking of old Christian patterns and methods.
But uncertainty could also lead to a pulling away from public life, New York's enduring justification for being, and a mimicking of the fortress mentality that has rolled across the country.
a A water droplet on the upper leaf side of Salvinia biloba and b a mimicking grasshopper Paulinia acuminata feeding on the leaf, even the grasshopper has a wax surface and is superhydrophobic.
In this context, we report on the direct conjugation of the protein A mimicking peptide Z33, a motif containing two α-helices, to linear hydrocarbons to create self-assembling immuno-amphiphiles (IAs).
Now synthesizing a mimicking structure of human enamel using acellular methods has attracted much interest from research groups who have tried using recombinant enamel making proteins like amelogenin, surfactants, to mimic the biomineralization process to restore the enamel layer.
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Finally, it was also shown that chemically synthesized lipid-A (mimicking the natural lipid-A portion of LPS from H. pylori) has a low endotoxic potency and immunobiological activities, and is recognized by TLR-4 [40].
Molecular dynamics simulations suggest that far more residues than just the CBM type A-mimicking tyrosine residues are involved in interactions with cellulose, some of which are part of the two fairly flexible shorter loops [ 13].
It's a mimic.
"She's more than a mimic," he said.
Can one be "global" without being a mimic?
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