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Noun
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Hader, a household name in Austria for his work as a comedian on stage, won the best actor honor at the Locarno Film Festival for his role in Hold-Up in 2000.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025 -
The series stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, and a large cast of young actors who have grown up alongside the show.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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A lot was said in the stretch leading up to the final about the contrast between the obvious intensity of the 4 Nations tournament and last Sunday’s N.B.A. All-Star Game, which was a bloated parade of celebrity and, for the players, a pantomime of effort.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
23 Feb. 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,
14 Feb. 2025
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After the release of Elden Ring, a famously difficult bestseller, Musk posted a screenshot of his character, but his build instantly exposed him as a poser.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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This poser is hard to work through when we are only given the text.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The maskers and their guests heralded Queen Rachel during the event, and the queen was seen onstage in the arena with various bands, including D Play and Dr. Zarr’s Amazing Funk Monster.—
Michael Dumas,
al,
16 Feb. 2023
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Anti-maskers?—
Adrienne So,
WIRED,
9 Mar. 2023
Noun
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As each mime insults at one another, their motions continue to grow more and more ridiculous, with Chloe Fineman and Ego Nwodim also jumping in at different points to offer their own emotive abuse.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
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Born Richard Capri in Reading, Pennsylvania, Capri honed his early skills as a comedian as a clerk in his father’s grocery store doing comedy mimes of the customers.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The strength of an ape, the speed of a cheetah, the comic timing of a grizzly bear, and so on.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2024
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Researchers studying a group of 20 of the captive apes sifted through more than 600 hours of footage looking for instances of urination.—
Collin Blinder,
science.org,
22 Jan. 2025
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Much like the original impressionists, Sodamin spends much time outdoors, frequently venturing into the Everglades and Florida Bay to fish, camp, and paint.—
Douglas Markowitz,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2025
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The only good thing about this show are the Gandalf Roasts videos from impressionist and YouTuber Charlie Hopkinson.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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The hat will be put to good use this weekend when Hager pays tribute to Red Skelton, the late pantomimist and radio and television comedian.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2019
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Image Reo King Sanshiro, a pantomimist, was standing outside a Chinese restaurant on a busy street in Kumamoto City.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 Oct. 2017
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“Masquerader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masquerader. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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