How to Use simulation in a Sentence
simulation
noun- They use computer simulation to predict weather conditions.
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And the guy in the room wasn't the role player in on the simulation.
—Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
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Wardell says the simulation shows Biden made the right call.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
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Then, the team tweaks a variable and runs the simulation again.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2022
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The golfers angling for the sneakers will be placed in a simulation of the Ryder Cup.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
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The gray progress bar shows that the simulation is getting ready.
—USA Today, 17 Nov. 2022
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The simulation included the same types of weapons the gunman used.
—CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
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And there’s even a simulation of the flight, with noise replicating the sound of the engine firing.
—Washington Post, 20 July 2021
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The Mets will bring hitters from High-A Brooklyn to face the ace in a two-inning simulation.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
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The team then trained three seals–Nick, Luca, and Miro–to shuffle into place in front of a large screen and showed them the simulations.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 May 2025
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The back-to-back simulation of Chicago and Boston was tough.
—Taylor Dutch, SELF, 20 Sep. 2021
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Kids can take aim at a crowd of cheering fans on a screen with a T-shirt cannon simulation.
—Annie Alleman, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022
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These simulations aim to model how the universe grows and evolves over time.
—Fan Zou, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2024
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The simulation shows a robust storm line that has congealed over the Blue Ridge, ahead of the advancing cold front.
—Washington Post, 1 July 2021
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As hero-cosplay for Cruise, a simulation was all it was ever meant to be.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2022
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It was first used on Coco for cloth simulation on a city full of skeletons.
—Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2023
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The most popular form of simulation is through the video game Madden.
—Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2024
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Note: The times in this simulation might differ from other sources of eclipse data by a minute or two.
—Melissa Locker, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
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When the simulation was run without accounting for these jets, the stars grew too large in size, resulting in stars about 10 times the mass of the sun.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 May 2021
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However, the resulting transfer to the moon took two years to get there in the simulation.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
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Per the simulation, more than 10 humans were enough to shoo away any of the predators, and thus the researchers found that a population of about a dozen hit the sweet spot.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
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Lane said some data being used by the state might not be updated and would change the simulation.
—Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 19 July 2023
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But for Fielder, the only way out his labyrinthine simulation is through.
—John Semley, The New Republic, 28 July 2022
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This film is almost like a simulation, like if Walden Two ran for many, many versions.
—Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
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The simulation has been tested by captains who work for British Airways and Ryanair.
—Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2024
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Even if the aliens running our simulation pull the plug, our stories will remain.
—CBS News, 15 June 2022
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But part of that simulation was also the sight and sound of his finger moving across the virtual plate.
—Lauren Goode, Wired, 16 Nov. 2021
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Because the simulation software for this sort of stuff is well advanced.
—WIRED, 15 June 2023
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But computer simulations show that there are filaments and tendrils of dark matter crisscrossing the voids like a faint echo of the grand cosmic web, repeating itself in miniature.
—Paul Sutter, Space.com, 6 June 2025
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Drawing upon observations by the Gaia and Hubble space telescopes, the team ran thousands of simulations of different scenarios over the next ten billion years.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025
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