as in seeming
very close to being something without actually being it
Even after twenty years living on the same street the reclusive man was still a virtual stranger to his neighbors.
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Recent Examples of virtual
Shonda Rhimes and Ryan Murphy have virtual free reign at Netflix.
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
Towards immersive virtual worlds Researchers believe retina E-paper could transform how humans experience digital environments.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Think about single features cropping up, like virtual try-on, image search, or conversational natural language, asking the chat bot in natural language terms to help find something.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
As the virtual session wrapped up, Shapiro’s advice clearly applied far beyond baseball.
—Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
Towards immersive virtual worlds Researchers believe retina E-paper could transform how humans experience digital environments.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Think about single features cropping up, like virtual try-on, image search, or conversational natural language, asking the chat bot in natural language terms to help find something.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
As the virtual session wrapped up, Shapiro’s advice clearly applied far beyond baseball.
—Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for virtual
Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtual
seeming
Adjective
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The Chicago Bears led by two touchdowns with five minutes left in the game, another seeming disappointment for the Bengals on home turf.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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As a result, Farrell has now become one of our most versatile actors, able to switch genres and types with seeming ease.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Virtual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtual. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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