emulator

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Recent Examples of emulator The quickest route to get to know more Mario lore is to play the games — pick up a Nintendo Switch Online subscription, which will grant access to the essentials with emulators of NES, Game Boy, SNES, Nintendo 64, and more. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2025 This emulator can also account for how predictions will shift if parameters are merely tweaked by tiny amounts. Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025 The technical feat Fonseca pulled off involves a Python script that monitors the game memory through the Dolphin emulator, sends dialogue context to AI models like GPT-5 or Gemini, and writes the responses back into the GameCube's RAM. ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025 There's a rich community of folks working to get popular emulators running, either natively in SteamOS or via the Wine Windows emulator. Brad Bourque, Wired News, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for emulator
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Noun
  • The first 100 guests that day get a free 305 bowl and can take photos with the brand’s ape mascot Manolo, who is modeled after the bored-looking ape of Castellanos’ NFT image.
    Connie Ogle March 4, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Jared Taglialatela, director of the Ape Initiative and co-author of one of the ape studies, agrees.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The key points of the settlement include an over $200-million payment, a divestment from some amphitheaters, a gradual end to exclusive ticketing contracts with venues, and opening up Ticketmaster’s platform to competitors.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Starz launched in 1994 as a premium cable channel that was positioned as a competitor to the likes of Showtime and HBO Max.
    Ellie Austin, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Baby boom for world’s most endangered parrot The kākāpō, the world’s largest, most endangered, and least graceful parrot, is undergoing a baby boom.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Millions of viewers tuned in, ever more by the week, even if just to see whether the night’s star guest could persuade the show’s parrot, also called Portobello, to say its own name.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The attacker who gunned down revelers at a bar in Austin, Texas, over the weekend appears to have posted antisemitic, anti-Christian and misogynistic posts in the year and a half leading up to the deadly shooting, according to law enforcement sources in Texas.
    Anna Schecter, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Meanwhile, police used license plate information that Parrish had called in before approaching Kearse to identify the attacker’s vehicle and home address, where Kearse was arrested.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The restaurant was once filled with neon lights, roller skating wait staff and a DJ booth complete with Elvis Presley impersonator, Vader said, describing eating there as an iconic Boise experience.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
  • To be fair, enlisting an impersonator to attend an awards show in their place certainly feels like the kind of high-concept goof someone like Carrey — who doesn’t make a ton of public appearances — might do.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The game got chaotic in the final minutes as several pitch invaders ran onto the field attempting to reach Messi.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Cytokines are the immune system’s chemical messengers that fire up immune cells and tell them to fight invaders, like bacteria and viruses.
    Sonya Collins, SELF, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Her jokester father worked for a railway; her realtor mother was a gifted mimic whose impressions of clients enlivened family dinners.
    The Week US, TheWeek, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Some of the hormone mimics, such as for amylin, might also work alone.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Of course, military operations often have to be kept under wraps to protect combatants and keep enemies off the scent.
    Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • As the name suggests, attack subs are designed to hunt and destroy other submarines, surface combatants (warships) and, if necessary, commercial vessels.
    James Dwyer, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026

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“Emulator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emulator. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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