simulacrum

Fortunately, “The Visit” does speak clearly in Tresnjak’s production, beautifully arrayed on scenic designer Alexander Dodge’s inventive simulacrum of the town.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

When George secretly attended a robot football game, his simulacrum told Jane he had to work late.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

The risks would be far greater if the interactions were taking place outside of a clinical setting, or for “re-animation” technologies like griefbots, which offer a simulacrum of speaking to a deceased loved one.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

Apparently, a lot of folks feel seeing people in the real world is too taxing, and it's easier to refract your urge for connection to an app that offers only an inch-deep simulacrum.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

The simulacrum now more whole than the original.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

But Rollins remained dismissive of the band, telling the New York Times decades later that he regarded the Stones’ music as a flimsy simulacra of work by Black artists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

She added, “We’ve reached a saturation point with retail simulacra: Everything is a copy of a copy, and even things that started in Copenhagen are now at Wayfair.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Philosopher John Searle made a fairly convincing argument that mere simulacra of understanding language can exist without real comprehension.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2022

Chalmers argues that ongoing advances in technology — especially in virtual reality and computer simulation — are eventually going to make the scary stories told around seminar tables about dreams and simulacra into real possibilities.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022

Therefore the body was carefully interred, sometimes even embalmed, and its weapons and foods, or at all events simulacra of these, were laid beside it.

From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie