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as in gesture
a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling
the game requires that you use pantomime to communicate an idea
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as in mime
an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements
in ancient Rome pantomimes performed tragic love stories
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Recent Examples of pantomime
Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 July 2024
In 2009, McGee was performing a Christmas pantomime at the Show Palace Dinner Theater (now called the Suncoast Broadway Dinner Theater) in Hudson.
—Maggie Duffy, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
Lautaro Grinspan, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
Only on Tubi do actors fail at pantomiming basic human behavior.
—Niela Orr, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
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Noun
Despite the medieval fire and brimstone that follows, Flight of the Conchords star Clement ensures the peril stays at kid-friendly levels of pantomime villainy.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 31 July 2024
In 2009, McGee was performing a Christmas pantomime at the Show Palace Dinner Theater (now called the Suncoast Broadway Dinner Theater) in Hudson.
—Maggie Duffy, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
Verb
Earlier this month, another contestant mockingly pantomimed speaking Chinese, and poked fun at Ku’s mother’s Chinese name, in a display many fans found openly racist and xenophobic.
—Lautaro Grinspan, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
Only on Tubi do actors fail at pantomiming basic human behavior.
—Niela Orr, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pantomime
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Every blink, hand gesture and slight facial expression needs to be accounted for.Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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The coda consists of thirty-five triple-forte bars in the key of D major, anchored on grandiloquent, fanfare-like gestures in the brass.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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Inside, aerialists, stilt walkers, mimes, jugglers, and dancers wandered around while Aliyah stood in the DJ booth pouring wine into people’s cups.Zoë Haylock, Vulture, 9 July 2024
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After all, Miuccia Prada has a PhD in political science, trained at The Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and performed as a mime artist for five years before entering family business founded by her grandfather in 1913.Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Luxury-real-estate shoppers, in fact, seem to have had a little spring in their step: signing 39 Manhattan contracts, more than anytime since March, according to Donna Olshan, who tracks the Manhattan luxury-real-estate market.Kim Velsey, Curbed, 15 Nov. 2024
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Abbott on signed a bill to permanently allow Texans to drink and roam.Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The team will also motion for the complaint’s dismissal.Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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Gass then motioned to her jacket, which was decked out in sparkles.Jane Thier, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
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It Chapter Two is down to clown, again — in a bloody, silly, overwrought sequel Moving down the tension scale to thrillers, Netflix is offloading a few particularly popular titles.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 2 Nov. 2024
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An 8-year-old girl fought off a man wearing a clown mask who police in Colorado reported attacked and attempted to kidnap her during a break-in at her family's home last week.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Pantomime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pantomime. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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