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Recent Examples of ersatz Those who had reserved seats at the real Post and Paddock Club got choice locations in the ersatz one. Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 27 July 2025 All of these ersatz businesses had accounts at Chase, Cathay or Singapore’s DBS Bank. Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 25 June 2025 What better way to claim an ersatz high ground by smearing the opposition as in league with evil? Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025 An ersatz planet Between Mizar and Alcor and a little to their south is an 8th-magnitude star that was once mistaken for a new planet. Joe Rao, Space.com, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for ersatz
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Adjective
  • Subtle bits of faux wheat give it additional texture, and there’s an attached loop in the back for easy hanging.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Pair the duo with fairy lights, a thin linen runner, and more faux foliage to create a stunning seasonal scene.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The drugs included protonitazene and metonitazene, two synthetic opioids with respective potencies of 100 and 200 times more powerful than morphine, court documents say.
    David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • By transforming ethanol into synthetic oils that can serve as HEFA feedstocks, the company’s technology could diversify and strengthen SAF production.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Federal Trade Commission issued an alert earlier in 2025 to encourage parents to talk to their children about the risks associated with responding to a fake text.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To make Reen feel comfortable and truly welcomed, Long’s entire extended family wore fake tattoo sleeves to the reunion.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Just a straight, artificial line.
    Jillian Sederholm, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
  • On Wall Street, Friday’s heaviest weight on the stock market was Nvidia, the chip company that’s become the face of the artificial-intelligence boom.
    Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Non-linear conversational branching is just one more feature to remind you that an AI chatbot's simulated perspective is mutable, changeable, and highly guided by your own inputs in addition to the training data that forged its underlying neural network.
    Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The team tested the attacks on a simulated server, Windows PC, and Raspberry Pi device and found that AI-powered ransomware often succeeded in generating and carrying out the malicious instructions.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Ersatz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ersatz. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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