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
It was filmed using virtual production tech at Studio Ulster with support from Northern Ireland Screen and actors from Northern Ireland.
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 May 2026
Hyundai Rotem plans to combine large-scale, high-precision 3D virtual environment development with proprietary 3D generative AI technologies.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
Within three months, Del Rio had confirmed Adler’s origin story and organized a virtual reunion.
—Vanessa A. Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2026
Expanding this into a feature involved making that virtual world physical — a problem that fell to production designer Danny Vermette, who leaned on his art director Alan Derksen and buyer Eric Cairns.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 May 2026
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Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 May 2026
Hyundai Rotem plans to combine large-scale, high-precision 3D virtual environment development with proprietary 3D generative AI technologies.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
Within three months, Del Rio had confirmed Adler’s origin story and organized a virtual reunion.
—Vanessa A. Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2026
Expanding this into a feature involved making that virtual world physical — a problem that fell to production designer Danny Vermette, who leaned on his art director Alan Derksen and buyer Eric Cairns.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtual
seeming
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The dress featured a red flower in a seeming nod to her character, Morticia Addams.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
23 May 2026
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Van de Peer and his colleagues wanted to understand what accounts for the abundance of modern polyploidy and the seeming relative scarcity of it long ago.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
19 May 2026
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“Virtual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtual. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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