simulacra
Example Sentences
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“Today I have put aside my plush ball in search of the real,” Gelsomina thinks, amusingly invoking semioticians such as Jean Baudrillard, who explored simulacra and authenticity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
Now, if our consciousness is only a dream, which this doctrine of foreordination makes it out to be, what are we all, in such a case, but mere simulacra, ghosts, shadows?
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
