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facsimile

[fak-sim-uh-lee] / fækˈsɪm ə li /


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If the four aces can do to October opponents what the 1966 Orioles did to the Dodgers, or some reasonable 21st century facsimile, we’ll see you at the parade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

But would the holographic pixels of an A.I.-generated facsimile capture the tiny crevices between my brother’s crooked teeth?

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

The show is adapted from, in fact is almost a facsimile of, the Apple TV+ series, which ran two short seasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

We are more digitally connected than ever, yet much of that connection functions as a kind of stand-in — a convincing facsimile that still leaves us hungry.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2026

Its streets are empty, its pavements static; to her fingers, it serves as little more than a tiny and insufficient facsimile.

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

Actual celebrities who have begun trademarking their names and catchphrases do so because their careers are likely to be impacted by AI facsimiles of them.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Near both the Peace Prize medal and the handprint are kid-friendly facsimiles that visitors can touch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

But after two dry-runs with facsimiles, the culture ministry in Paris is confident the technical difficulties have been overcome.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

The venue forbids phones, so it was a joy to see a crowd focused on the stage without hundreds of little screens recording poor facsimiles of the live event.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024

In demy 8vo, cloth gilt and gilt top, with 16 Illustrations and interesting facsimiles in text, 16s. net.

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay

It’s not difficult to imagine why some Fijians, earning minimum wages of less than $2 an hour, hold wealthy foreign investors in contempt — a phenomenon facsimiled in other developing nations in the Pacific.

From Time ● Aug. 28, 2013

If a page is torn, it can be repaired, or if a piece of it is missing, it can be facsimiled, and the whole of the inside of the volume can be washed throughout.

From The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books by Arthur Lee Humphreys

Fielding's own benefit, as appears from the curious ticket attributed to Hogarth and facsimiled by A. M. Ireland, took place on April 25, but we have no record of the amount of his gains.

From Fielding by Austin Dobson

Girdelstone and Monteagle, meanwhile, were to set about having the Aulus Gellius printed and facsimiled; for I thought it was a pity such a work should be lost to the world. 

From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross

Mr. Rye has shown that the specimen of handwriting facsimiled by Dr. Grosart in his edition of Henry Vaughan's Works cannot possibly be the poet's.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers




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