EMULATOR Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

emulator

noun

Definition of emulator

as in ape

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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

While Limbani prepared for the move, Lee stopped by to give the young ape a personal drumming performance.

— Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
Jimmy Tatro will play Gorilla Grodd, the superintelligent ape and sometime Superman nemesis.

— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of ape

Noun

But Patel observed that many of the robotic competitors were still being teleoperated by human operators who directly controlled the robots’ actions.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2026
That is 35 films the two studios are already planning as independent competitors before any merger occurs.

— Joseph M. Singer, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of competitor

Noun

Kiyo, our Senegal parrot, has the best view of us all with his cage situated at a corner wraparound window in our living room.

— John Higgins, The Verge, 18 Aug. 2026
Guest stars included Mel Blanc as the voice of a parrot, a young Kurt Russell, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Don Rickles, and the band the Wellingtons.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of parrot

Noun

On a typical day this July, around four Roosevelt impersonators were roaming the streets, identifiable by their mustaches, stout bellies, and dispensing of homespun wisdom.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Topline An impersonator pretending to be White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles exchanged messages with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, according to multiple reports, the latest incident of someone posing as Wiles contacting a powerful figure.

— Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of impersonator

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

If a foreign state treated these law enforcement operations as armed conflict, the private sector employees running them would not be combatants under international law and would not have POW or other protections.

— Jill Goldenziel, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Hours of fierce fighting between government troops and militias that killed dozens of combatants in Somalia’s southwestern city of Baidoa also left at least four civilians dead and 98 others wounded, a hospital official said Tuesday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of combatant

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