How to Use facsimile in a Sentence
facsimile
noun- A facsimile of the world's first computer was exhibited in the museum.
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Yet these organoids are tiny facsimiles of part of a human brain.
—Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
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And yet, this is no mere facsimile of a Haitian living room.
—Elly Fishman, Vogue, 8 May 2026
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Stretch is built to explore the world—not just some facsimile of the world in a research lab.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2024
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Smartly, the menu’s culinary homages are more riffs than facsimiles.
—Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
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The new version is a weak facsimile of an already mediocre film.
—Peter Hartlaub, kansascity, 3 May 2018
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But there is a reasonable facsimile, a goat call, heard throughout each game.
—Hartford Courant, courant.com, 15 May 2017
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Any facsimile could never come close to the real thing, in all of its beauty and horror.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
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Still, the new recording is more a facsimile than an addendum.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021
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Both are facsimiles that serve mainly to show us the richness of the original.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2016
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There are facsimiles or versions of documents in the book.
—Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
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Sharp-eyed fans of One Piece will spot a facsimile of a page of artwork from the first chapter.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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In front of him, was a large facsimile of an Air-India plane on top of a pale green building.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 17 July 2024
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These meticulous facsimiles of her world are the art of someone drawn to detail and who wants things arranged just so.
—Katherine Fusco, The Atlantic, 11 July 2018
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Some of the best food on the fairgrounds is available elsewhere, either in carbon copy form or as a close facsimile.
—Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
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No such facsimiles for Mauer, who made his softball debut at age 36.
—John Shipley, Twin Cities, 22 July 2019
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But even at its best, Kiss Land still feels like a contrived facsimile of what preceded it.
—Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
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Both Davidson’s facsimile of a face and Grande’s real face got the dog-ear filter.
—Sarah Spellings, The Cut, 29 June 2018
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For the first time, a crowd at a retail brokerage could watch together as a facsimile of the stock ticker tape whizzed by in bright light.
—Robert J. Shiller, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
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The Sunday e-edition is a facsimile of the weekend print edition.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Jan. 2021
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So in a way, the podcast has become a wonderful facsimile of the football pub (minus the drink and the queue for the toilets).
—The Athletic Staff, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
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What's more, their stage show from the time period included a gigantic facsimile of the famous stones.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Sep. 2025
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In essence, the anti-establishment ethos of the crypto world is being applied to a rough facsimile of the stock market.
—Michael P. Regan, Fortune, 6 July 2021
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The Cleveland Heights man, 19, was cited for having a facsimile of a firearm.
—cleveland, 20 Dec. 2019
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The piece at the Margulies is a facsimile of the first apartment Suh rented in New York.
—Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
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The article includes photos of the house, or a facsimile, being constructed on the center of the field.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
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Clear that the Jeanette in the story wasn’t the faithful facsimile of the JW writing the story.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
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In the last few years even calling it a pale facsimile of an actual NFL game would be generous.
—Ike Brannon, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
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Or at least a decent facsimile of the CFP, with a less-ballyhooed game still to go the week after for both programs.
—Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
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The first gallery of the exhibition, with the facsimile of Raphael’s tomb, puts his passion for ancient Rome front and center.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
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