as in seeming
very close to being something without actually being it
Even after twenty years living on the same street the reclusive man was still a virtual stranger to his neighbors.
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Recent Examples of virtual
The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board’s decision blocked an application from the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation to open a statewide virtual Jewish school serving grades K-12 beginning next school year.
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Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
The school will hold a town hall with students on Thursday evening and a virtual meeting with parents the following week.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
For the project, Lim put Cao’s avatar, China Tracy, in Hussein Chalayan in Second Life, a virtual world.
—Denni Hu, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
While some fans waited in the MLB virtual waiting room for over an hour after presale began, others received an error message.
—Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
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Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2026
The school will hold a town hall with students on Thursday evening and a virtual meeting with parents the following week.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
For the project, Lim put Cao’s avatar, China Tracy, in Hussein Chalayan in Second Life, a virtual world.
—Denni Hu, Footwear News, 11 Feb. 2026
While some fans waited in the MLB virtual waiting room for over an hour after presale began, others received an error message.
—Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for virtual
Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtual
seeming
Adjective
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And Lincoln’s seeming role as a symphonic football is nothing new, either.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Giving things a second life—or a third—is a gift of the young architect, who over her decade-long career, has turned tree trunks into tables and tables into storage trunks, never pausing to question an object’s value—or any seeming lack thereof.—
Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar,
Architectural Digest,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Virtual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtual. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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