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
Indeed, many doctors do — choosing to work for the VA, Kaiser or the military, accepting lower salaries in exchange for virtual immunity from malpractice.
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Vamsi Aribindi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
The program is built around a monthly subscription that includes virtual visits with licensed clinicians, routine lab monitoring, nutritionist support, and coaching.
—Zoe Weiner, Flow Space, 23 Jan. 2026
The tour continued through to one of the multimedia buildings, a space originally built during the pandemic that has become a full-time hub for video production, live shows, and virtual fan conventions.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore canceled in-person classes Monday through Friday, opting for virtual instruction.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
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Vamsi Aribindi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
The program is built around a monthly subscription that includes virtual visits with licensed clinicians, routine lab monitoring, nutritionist support, and coaching.
—Zoe Weiner, Flow Space, 23 Jan. 2026
The tour continued through to one of the multimedia buildings, a space originally built during the pandemic that has become a full-time hub for video production, live shows, and virtual fan conventions.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 23 Jan. 2026
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore canceled in-person classes Monday through Friday, opting for virtual instruction.
—Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtual
seeming
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Filmed in Lambert’s own Ohio hometown, the film revels in the seeming minutiae of everyday life, but finds pleasure and profundity in such spaces.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2026
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Oracles are by their nature enigmatic, obscure, gnomic, a mode that the aleatory perambulations of the Eureka engine would seem predisposed toward producing, but narrative also has a venerable tradition of being mechanically generated, despite the seeming complexity of plot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Virtual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtual. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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