simulacra
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She added, “We’ve reached a saturation point with retail simulacra: Everything is a copy of a copy, and even things that started in Copenhagen are now at Wayfair.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2023
Philosopher John Searle made a fairly convincing argument that mere simulacra of understanding language can exist without real comprehension.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2022
Chalmers argues that ongoing advances in technology — especially in virtual reality and computer simulation — are eventually going to make the scary stories told around seminar tables about dreams and simulacra into real possibilities.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022
Like the fruitiness of fruit-flavored candy, it's an intense and concentrated simulacra of the original.
From Salon • Jan. 4, 2022
The plurima simulacra of the Gaulish Mercury may have been boundary stones like those dedicated to Mercury or Hermes among the Romans and Greeks.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.