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facsimile

[fak-sim-uh-lee] / fækˈsɪm ə li /


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But for a fair number of others, the main objection is that Summerween cheapens Halloween — that to celebrate a summer facsimile will dilute the real thing.

From Salon Jun. 30, 2026

Playing up the absurdity of the disguise, the company promptly changed its logo across social media to a facsimile of the covered-up sign.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

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

Its streets are empty, its pavements static; to her fingers, it serves as little more than a tiny and insufficient facsimile.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

The production of copper facsimiles by the electric current is called electrotype, and is the oldest branch of electro-metallurgy.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

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

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

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

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

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




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