as in pretends
to present a false appearance of
cosmetics that simulate a suntan
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Recent Examples of simulates
This year's scenario simulates an airplane crash into a building, creating multiple injuries and casualties.
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Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The Supercomputer simulates the remaining fixtures of a season 10,000 times and analyses the results to create an average league table from those simulations.
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Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
The facility is likely the only one in the world that can do full-load, bidirectional testing that simulates both grid conditions and variable data-center loads.
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IEEE Spectrum,
29 Apr. 2026
Ray tracing is a 3D rendering technology that simulates the behavior of light to produce realistic reflections and lighting effects.
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Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
27 Apr. 2026
Artificial intelligence refers to any technology or machine that simulates human intelligence, such as performing problem solving, decision making and reasoning.
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Katherine Lin,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
An Alabama rig simulates an entire school of baitfish by bringing five or more swimbaits together in one seamless rig.
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Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
16 Apr. 2026
The deep pressure simulates the snug feeling of side sleeping and can reduce the urge to roll over.
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Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2026
Through flashbacks and leaps ahead in time, fragmentation and fantasy scenes, the film simulates complexity while endowing its characters with mere crumbs of knowledge and experience.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The Supercomputer simulates the remaining fixtures of a season 10,000 times and analyses the results to create an average league table from those simulations.
—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
The facility is likely the only one in the world that can do full-load, bidirectional testing that simulates both grid conditions and variable data-center loads.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Apr. 2026
Ray tracing is a 3D rendering technology that simulates the behavior of light to produce realistic reflections and lighting effects.
—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
27 Apr. 2026
Artificial intelligence refers to any technology or machine that simulates human intelligence, such as performing problem solving, decision making and reasoning.
—
Katherine Lin,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
An Alabama rig simulates an entire school of baitfish by bringing five or more swimbaits together in one seamless rig.
—
Derek Horner,
Outdoor Life,
16 Apr. 2026
The deep pressure simulates the snug feeling of side sleeping and can reduce the urge to roll over.
—
Allison Palmer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2026
Through flashbacks and leaps ahead in time, fragmentation and fantasy scenes, the film simulates complexity while endowing its characters with mere crumbs of knowledge and experience.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for simulates
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Beauty, then, arises from the pain and struggle of experiencing oneself as a site of divine truancy, and ugly is that which pretends to be directly equivalent to the soul, God, etc.
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The person on the phone pretends to be IT support and tries to convince the employee to install remote desktop software.
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The dominant policy framework assumes that broader access equals better outcomes.
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This assumes, of course, that a work permit eventually comes through.
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Scientific American spoke with Devika Bhushan, a public health physician and adjunct faculty member at Stanford University School of Medicine, who studies gender norms, about the ways in which fatherhood affects men’s brains and the mental health struggles dads face.
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More than four decades later, Campbell says the loss still affects her every day.
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