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ersatz

adjective as in artificial

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The ersatz meat product began appearing on menus at only 400 restaurants in the US last week but should be making its way to many more fast-casual eateries, hotels, stadiums, and other businesses soon.

From Quartz

In the buildup, Mayweather described last night’s ersatz contest as “legalized bank robbery.”

The company’s ersatz beef is being touted at both Burger King and Papa John’s pizza outlets in Chile.

From Ozy

Listen to this week’s episode to learn more about our complicated relationship with ersatz humanoids—and why it probably doesn’t boil down to an ancient alien conspiracy.

Atlast’s consumer brand, MyEats, is launching the bacon in select stores this fall, but the company says to expect wider availability—and a growing variety of ersatz meat cuts and even seafood—in the future.

They were done to give a thin patina of ersatz legitimacy to what is otherwise flagrant sexual assault.

An elderly couple dances under flashing lights in an ersatz disco club.

Our hopes have gotten so cheesy that even the cheese is ersatz.

We put our heads together and in the calmer light of logic, and much ersatz coffee, solved the problem.

Plus, the song is catchy and rich with emotion which, although it may be ersatz, is pop perfection.

There was Tylerton—an ersatz city, but looking so real and familiar that Burckhardt almost imagined the whole episode a dream.

We were getting German ersatz coffee which was bitter and resembled coffee only by its color.

The dear old chap was eating lotus in his Fool's Paradise, thinking it genuine pre-war lotus and not war ersatz.

It went along with the ersatz rustic decor of the rest of the Sky Hi Club.

We weren't used to strong coffee, and these warmed-over grounds were much better than Kaffee-Ersatz.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ersatz, such as: counterfeit, fake, imitation, phony, sham, and substitute.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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