How to Use simulacrum in a Sentence

simulacrum

noun
  • Not a simulacrum of his real body, of course.
    — Alexis Coe, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Third places are a vital part of cities and cities of all sizes need more of them—and more that aren’t a simulacrum.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 31 May 2018
  • Buffett has given his fans a path to a simulacrum of the island life.
    — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
  • What’s left is a simulacrum of closeness and care that takes place in the digital space.
    — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2019
  • Six hours in the simulacrum, earning credit at the data mines.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026
  • My brief moment in the spotlight, a two-minute simulacrum of what is a showbiz dream for many, had come to an end.
    — Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Is this a person whose standards have fallen low enough that the barest simulacrum of fun is worth noting?
    — Nitsuh Abebe, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • This seems like a pretty good simulacrum of what my future viewport on Mars will look like.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The simulacrum of your own face for video calls is also a bit of an uncanny valley nightmare.
    — Andrew Williams, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2024
  • There are big audiences for these videos, with many actively seeking out the simulacra.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
  • In so many ways, the story of Keith Raniere is a fitting simulacrum for our post-truth world.
    — Amelia Harnish, refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
  • For now, researchers have to settle for these imperfect simulacrums.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Then, in the end credits, the filmmakers wholly exit the simulacrum with a doozy of a reveal.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Both sell a vacuous simulacrum of a lifestyle that does not match up with reality.
    — T.d. Williams, The Root, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But this title race had never really been a drama, merely the simulacrum of one.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 May 2017
  • Under the lid, there are no strings to move the air, but rather speakers that create an uncanny simulacrum of a grand piano.
    — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 July 2024
  • That may remain the case until a simulacrum of space is indistinguishable from our own.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 24 July 2018
  • The fake Woodsboro house exists inside a Scream movie that feels like a simulacrum of a Scream movie.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2026
  • But the output is mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Even the man who created the monster isn’t immune to its simulacrum of human connection.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The evening offered a simulacrum of an American program, polished and shiny.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
  • That line between school and home life, between the real world and the simulacrum of reality that exists online, has been erased.
    — Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The more philosophical among them point out that humans have been making simulacra of our bodies for millennia.
    — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The more philosophical among them point out that humans have been making simulacra of our bodies for millennia.
    — James Vincent, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • But the moment of recognition is overlaid with his sense that the man in the overcoat is only one of several simulacra of himself.
    — Marco Roth, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
  • That, as the governor’s lawyer Rita Glavin complained this morning, was the simulacrum of due process.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard called this a simulacrum – a copy with no original.
    — Tamilla Triantoro, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For the homeless, South Station offers at least a simulacrum of protection.
    — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The stage show uses balletic movements to recall those of felines, and over-the-top costumes to achieve suggestion rather than simulacrum.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2019
  • The color palette shifted from the beige and olive green of roadside scrub to charcoal trunks and scorched leaves in shades of orange, an uncanny simulacrum of autumn.
    — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020

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