EMULATOR Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

emulator

noun

Definition of emulator

as in ape

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as in competitor

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Recent Examples of emulator The only more surprising emulator news would be if NESticle somehow rose from the dead. — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026 In one experiment, the developer Anthropic prompted its AI, Claude, to play Pokémon Red on a Game Boy emulator, and found that Claude was extremely bad at the game. — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 The Playback app isn’t just an emulator shell, either. — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 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 See All Example Sentences for emulator

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Noun

In the half-hour comedy series, a superintelligent ape is convicted of murdering his father, the King of Gorilla City.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
Perched above the custom triple clamps are narrow ape-hanger handlebars flanked by a classic square headlight and a handcrafted cowl that accentuates the bike's narrow silhouette.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of ape

Noun

But newspaper people ought to stand in solidarity with our broadcast brethren/competitors in this incredibly small-minded and grudging clash between the White House and the Washington press corps.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
As figures like Goldberg publicly champion micro-practices, expect competitors to release bite-sized modules designed to fit between meetings or before opening a stressful email.

— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of competitor

Noun

The karure finished at the top of the pecking order with more than 25,000 votes, beating previous winners the kākāpō, a large flightless parrot, and the kārearea, or New Zealand falcon, into second and third place, respectively.

— Adam Pourahmadi, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
First, pink parrot prints just up against green and gold panelling.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of parrot

Noun

Angel Marcelo Escalante Gamazo was arguing with his attacker outside Los Arrieros restaurant on Roosevelt Ave.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
The exchange’s security team found that the attacker breached a critical backend wallet system, used it to spoof transfer information and triggered Bitget’s authorization-signing process.

— Matthew Tan, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of attacker

Noun

In this case, that’s Sarah Jones, a hugely adept impersonator of a variety of New York characters who, in 2006, won a special Tony for her one-person summoning of nearly all of Queens in Bridge & Tunnel.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
An impersonator may have tricked a Las Vegas nightclub last year, but those at the park Tuesday appeared convinced of their brush with Bieber.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of impersonator

Noun

Following their hot Sundance title Sasquatch Sunset, David and Nathan Zellner arrive in the Great White North with a sci-fi comedy about alien invaders, hellbent to conquer Earth, but in the form of a 1950s biker gang.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
Using the format of a news broadcast, Welles announced an attack on New Jersey by invaders from Mars.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of invader

Noun

The latter line, in its phrasing and melody and even the musical tone of its words, is an almost perfect mimic of Santa Claus asking Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to guide his sleigh.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 14 July 2026
In design reviews, require product owners to specify which consumer or internal patterns the new workflow mimics; adjust UI labels and steps to match those mental models.

— Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of mimic

Noun

The main combatants are Ethiopian federal troops and fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front, or TPLF, an armed political group in Tigray, Ethiopia's northernmost regional state.

— SAMUEL GETACHEW, Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2026
The main combatants are Ethiopian federal troops and fighters loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, an armed political group in Tigray, Ethiopia's northernmost regional state.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of combatant

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