How to Use simulacrum in a Sentence

simulacrum

noun

• Icon of the ’80s out; polyester simulacrum of the ’80s in.
  — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2021
• 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
• At root the anxiety is: Who is the human here, and who the simulacrum?
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2017
• Sometimes, though, a simulacrum of love just has to do.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2019
• The message was clear: Buy this simulacrum of part of my body and join me in this array of beauties.
  — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• What’s left is a simulacrum of closeness and care that takes place in the digital space.
  — Annie Vainshtein, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2019
• Buffett has given his fans a path to a simulacrum of the island life.
  — Taffy Brodesser-Akner, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• And far away, a simulacrum of nature: a perfect leaf crafted in grass-fed foam.
  — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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 simulacrum of your own face for video calls is also a bit of an uncanny valley nightmare.
  — Andrew Williams, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2024
• For starters, his performance was at best a simulacrum.
  — Ben Greenman, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2017
• With pride, Nosrati pointed out the expansive roof-deck complete with a firepit and olive trees: a simulacrum of a backyard.
  — Adrian Chen, Curbed, 5 July 2021
• Kevin Depinet’s detailed set is a nifty simulacrum of the original Sun venue that offers a sense of close quarters on the large Paramount stage.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• But it’s a galvanizing, tough book, one that asks us to not accept a simulacrum of improvement for the real thing.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• 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
• The evening offered a simulacrum of an American program, polished and shiny.
  — Washington Post, 8 June 2019
• In Stories, food is less an object to fetishize than a prop in the narrative, a set piece for a small-scale Kardashians simulacrum, and everyone gets to be Kim.
  — Julia Kramer, Bon Appetit, 23 Mar. 2018
• But the output is mostly a simulacrum of human thought, not the product of cogitation.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• 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
• What else could result from this but the thin simulacrum of brotherhood, a bond based not upon the specifics of my life but upon the shared condition of a Y chromosome?
  — Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• For the homeless, South Station offers at least a simulacrum of protection.
  — Deanna Pan, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
• The holiday train, like the other ghost trains, is a simulacrum of a locomotive, with sounds and thousands of LED lights standing in for the actual train.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2019
• But this title race had never really been a drama, merely the simulacrum of one.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 12 May 2017
• That may remain the case until a simulacrum of space is indistinguishable from our own.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 24 July 2018
• Even the man who created the monster isn’t immune to its simulacrum of human connection.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• An outer-borough boy from Queens who grew up longing to make his name in Manhattan, Trump flecked his every home with gold, bleached his teeth, and blew out his hair in a gaudy simulacrum of wealth.
  — vanityfair.com, 2 Feb. 2017
• This is the mode of cultural consumption where Major League Baseball has, time and again, failed to offer even a simulacra of transparency on a world where everything stands in suspicion.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024