simulacrum

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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

It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

The original manuscript of Hemingway’s book has not, alas, been rediscovered — Byers has created a simulacrum of sorts, an imagined version of “One Must First Endure.”

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2024

It’s as if they were taken over by a simulacrum, as in “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2024

The simulacrum now more whole than the original.

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