simulacrum

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

Having spent hours flying over its virtual simulacrum, I knew the place well.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

It’s as if they were taken over by a simulacrum, as in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2024

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

The simulacrum now more whole than the original.

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

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

Like the fruitiness of fruit-flavored candy, it's an intense and concentrated simulacra of the original.

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2022

"The ειδωλα ἀπόῤῥοιαι--imagines, simulacra rerum, etc., are, like pellicles, continually flying off from objects; and these material 'likenesses,' diffusing themselves everywhere in the air, are propelled to the perceptive organs."

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker