simulacrum
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When George secretly attended a robot football game, his simulacrum told Jane he had to work late.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 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
Similarly, the jokes throughout seem like they’re supposed to be laugh lines, but are really just a simulacrum of humor, quips without wit.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
He pushes me casually to the side, holding the scim to the simulacrum.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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
Philosopher John Searle made a fairly convincing argument that mere simulacra of understanding language can exist without real comprehension.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2022
Chalmers argues that ongoing advances in technology — especially in virtual reality and computer simulation — are eventually going to make the scary stories told around seminar tables about dreams and simulacra into real possibilities.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
Therefore the body was carefully interred, sometimes even embalmed, and its weapons and foods, or at all events simulacra of these, were laid beside it.
From The Sea-Kings of Crete by Baikie, James
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An Ember in the Ashes
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