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
Recently I received the gift of “Louis I. Kahn: The Last Notebook,” a facsimile edition of the great architect’s final sketches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
I can handle the facsimile, but I can’t handle the real thing.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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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
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 1876 centennial also became a great commercial anniversary, with facsimiles and other cheap reproductions widely circulated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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 copies were facsimiles of the originals, both as to colors and character.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 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
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
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
Mr. Rye has shown that the specimen of handwriting facsimiled by Dr. Grosart in his edition of Henry Vaughan's Works cannot possibly be the poet's.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
Blake, 1804, facsimiled at Edmonton, anno 1886, By Wm.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
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