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virtual

[vur-choo-uhl] / ˈvɜr tʃu əl /


ADJECTIVE
computer-generated
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Now that job candidates are using artificial intelligence to write résumés and coach them through virtual interviews, businesses are desperate for human insight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The email told staff to comply with the directive and move in-person meetings to virtual meetings, according to CBS News.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Exploring these possibilities requires researchers to generate enormous numbers of detailed computer simulations, each representing a virtual universe built using different physical assumptions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

“Neuromancer,” one of the defining cyberpunk novels, was published in 1988; that book imagines an interconnected, virtual reality world you can traverse by “jacking in.”

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

Every moment of every video record was connected to a hundred others by different criteria—which meant that every connection Citra followed led her down a rabbit hole of virtual neurons.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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