facsimile
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Instead, it delivered a watered-down facsimile of those sounds, that critics called "unremarkable, external", "obtuse, external" and "lacking in depth, external".
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
But would the holographic pixels of an A.I.-generated facsimile capture the tiny crevices between my brother’s crooked teeth?
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
We are more digitally connected than ever, yet much of that connection functions as a kind of stand-in — a convincing facsimile that still leaves us hungry.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026
Given the title, it is hardly a spoiler to say that after Marjorie’s death, Tess overcomes her initial dislike of Primes to have a technological facsimile of her mother join the family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
We stood there like junior undertakers while the wind turned Cap’s unbound hair into a reasonable facsimile of a rain forest.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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Actual celebrities who have begun trademarking their names and catchphrases do so because their careers are likely to be impacted by AI facsimiles of them.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Near both the Peace Prize medal and the handprint are kid-friendly facsimiles that visitors can touch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
But after two dry-runs with facsimiles, the culture ministry in Paris is confident the technical difficulties have been overcome.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The venue forbids phones, so it was a joy to see a crowd focused on the stage without hundreds of little screens recording poor facsimiles of the live event.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
I have seen various facsimiles of such drawings published, but the subjects they were intended to represent have been seldom sufficiently defined to illustrate their original meaning.
From The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland by Harriet Ward
It’s not difficult to imagine why some Fijians, earning minimum wages of less than $2 an hour, hold wealthy foreign investors in contempt — a phenomenon facsimiled in other developing nations in the Pacific.
From Time ● Aug. 28, 2013
Girdelstone and Monteagle, meanwhile, were to set about having the Aulus Gellius printed and facsimiled; for I thought it was a pity such a work should be lost to the world.
From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross
This was hardly what John wanted; but, not to be beaten, he facsimiled the P. 35master's freehand in a sort of engraver's stipple, which his habitual neatness helped him to do in perfection.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
If a page is torn, it can be repaired, or if a piece of it is missing, it can be facsimiled, and the whole of the inside of the volume can be washed throughout.
From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Arthur Lee Humphreys
GRAY’S ELEGY: with Sixteen beautiful Illustrations by Norman Prescott Davies, facsimiled from his original drawings in the possession, and published by the gracious permission of H. R. H. The Princess of Wales.
From Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore by Various
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