simulacrum
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They return again and again to the phenomenon of experiential change, such as the way that memories may seem accurate or false depending on one’s vantage, or when something original is mistaken for its simulacrum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
The risks would be far greater if the interactions were taking place outside of a clinical setting, or for “re-animation” technologies like griefbots, which offer a simulacrum of speaking to a deceased loved one.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
Apparently, a lot of folks feel seeing people in the real world is too taxing, and it's easier to refract your urge for connection to an app that offers only an inch-deep simulacrum.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
If you never got to see Marley move, Kingsley Ben-Adir is a fine simulacrum.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
“You let the boy make a simulacrum of you, then bring him here on malfeasance?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
But Rollins remained dismissive of the band, telling the New York Times decades later that he regarded the Stones’ music as a flimsy simulacra of work by Black artists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
She added, “We’ve reached a saturation point with retail simulacra: Everything is a copy of a copy, and even things that started in Copenhagen are now at Wayfair.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
Italian semiotician and author Umberto Eco said as much in his seminal Il costume di casa, or "Faith in Fakes," in which he attempted to unfurl "America's obsession with simulacra and counterfeit reality."
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023
Philosopher John Searle made a fairly convincing argument that mere simulacra of understanding language can exist without real comprehension.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2022
We cannot feed our minds on simulacra any more than we can our bodies.
From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs
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