impostures

noun

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plural of imposture
as in pretences

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  1. representations
  2. simulations
  3. demonstrations
  4. likenesses
Noun
  • By the 1930s and throughout the 1940s, Benton became associated with Regionalism—among its devotees, Grant Wood—which rejected abstract expressionism and exalted realist representations of rural America.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Embeddings, simply put, are numerical representations of any object, like words, images, protein sequences, etc.
    Harini Gopalakrishnan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of representations
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  • Human expertise uncovers evolving attack tactics, while simulations prepare employees to respond instinctively to threats, making each interaction a proactive defense measure.
    Seemant Sehgal, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • What To Know Using advanced climate simulations, the research team explored how future atmospheric rivers will interact with oceanic conditions such as surface temperatures and water mixing.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of simulations
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  • Robinson, best known for organizing anti-immigration demonstrations, was jailed for 18 months in October for contempt of court, for breaching a court order by repeating defamatory claims about a teenage Syrian refugee.
    Dave Lawler, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
  • While residents had been protesting the order to vacate since it was issued in November, the tenor of their demonstrations, and the rhetoric surrounding the government’s response, took on a darker, more indignant tone in early December, following the arrest of Vivian Hernandez.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of demonstrations
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  • Since the measuring session, artists had begun creating the figure in London, in a four-story complex that turns out almost two hundred likenesses a year.
    Zach Zimmerman, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • At Madame Tussauds London, Elton’s model joins likenesses of pop and rock giants Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Amy Winehouse, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of likenesses
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