ersatz

Example Sentences

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Those smoke-stained mirrors, that tin ceiling, the drapery and light fixtures are in fact set-dressed — ersatz!

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The short sequence, created by Seedance -- the AI generation model developed by TikTok's parent company, Bytedance -- shows an ersatz fight between Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

Tiny chairs dangle on Christmas trees beside ersatz Heinz pickles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

The notion of swapping out a great prosciutto with an ersatz version is just never going to happen for me.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2024

Or, conversely, the android could be regarded as a highly developed, evolved version of the ersatz animal.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick