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facsimiles

noun

plural of facsimile

as in pictures

something or someone that strongly resembles another the family resemblance is so strong that the boy is virtually a pint-size facsimile of his father

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as in copies

something that is made to look exactly like something else this is not an antique copy of the Declaration of Independence but a modern facsimile

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Recent Examples of facsimiles Drawing at least in part on information from Chalker’s defectors, the Pentagon constructed life-size underground facsimiles of Iranian nuclear facilities where the scientists had worked, attempting to duplicate even the thickness of the walls. —

David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 The Carter Museum also partnered with the Fort Worth History Center to provide a number of archival materials, photographs, and facsimiles of the Como Weekly, a Black newspaper in the Lake Como community that ran from 1940 until 1986. —

Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026 The installation reproduces local KGB archives on Stalin and facsimiles of historical artifacts of the 1960s placed around an AR reconstruction of Buddha in Nirvana, a forty-three-foot-long, 1,600-year-old clay statue of a reclining Buddha excavated in Tajikistan in the late ’60s. —

Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026 McCarthy moved to his current studio in 2012, and around then, bought land out in the Tehachapi Mountains to serve as Wild West backdrops, not unlike the early film studios buying up tumbleweed stables in Topanga to serve as facsimiles of one-horse towns to shoot westerns. —

Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026 After spending years mostly directing his own projects, usually to middling reviews, Clooney has recently turned in a couple of performances that felt like pale facsimiles of former glories, in the rom-com Ticket to Paradise and the action-thriller Wolfs. —

David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025 There are facsimiles or versions of documents in the book. —

Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025

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On this night, as Rashad posed for pictures in Bushwick, SZA was a few miles away in Manhattan, walking the red carpet at the Met Gala.

— Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
Once in the asteroid's orbit, NASA's spacecraft is slated to take pictures of the asteroid's surface and shed light on its composition, over the course of about two years.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 May 2026