ersatz

Example Sentences

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Americans have voted with our wallets in favor of generic cheese by purchasing more ersatz domestic “gruyere” than we buy of the authentic Swiss stuff.

From Washington Post

Here is ersatz Whitman: “O lands! O lands! to be cruise-faring, to be sealanding! / To go on visiting Niagara, to go on, to go on!”

From Washington Post

Conversely, when it comes to memorializations of Indigenous people, the representations are often ersatz, generic or difficult to find.

From Los Angeles Times

And there are covered wood wagons on the beach, ersatz changing rooms for 19th-century leisure seekers.

From Washington Post

Half the time I felt like I was in an ersatz fashion version of the musical “Hair.”

From New York Times