Sample Sentences for
simulate
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    We have programmed the computer to simulate the kinds of situations we might expect in encounters with the enemy.  (source)
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    They could convincingly simulate the sensation of a tap on the shoulder, a kick to the shin, or a gunshot in the chest.  (source)
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    Bed sheets were spread to simulate a wide, white carpet the length of the gym, from the throne of the door of the girls' locker room where, with my attendants, we waited for the PA system to give us our musical cue.  (source)
    simulate = imitate (or act as)
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    I want this new reality to be a simulation that I could manipulate if I could only make sense of it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Billy was displayed there in the zoo in a simulated Earthling habitat.  (source)
    simulated = made an imitation or representation of
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    They were also schooled in bailout simulations, jumping from parked planes.  (source)
    simulations = practices in non-real environments
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    We show them how to take cover from aircraft, how to simulate a dead man when one is overrun in an attack, how to time hand-grenades so that they explode half a second before hitting the ground...  (source)
    simulate = imitate
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    This was the portion of the approach the Tunisian had never driven, though he and the Jordanian had practiced it on a sophisticated computer simulator.†  (source)
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    I watch my classmates run along a giant track surrounded by a 360-degree screen simulating some desolate warfront road.†  (source)
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    Outside, artillery simulators exploded—an incoming shriek followed by a boom.†  (source)
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    The 12TH JUROR crosses to the 8TH JUROR and using his closed hand, simulates stabbing the 8TH JUROR in the chest.  (source)
    simulates = makes an imitation or representation of
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    With loneliness in abeyance and with my creative juices in full flow, I could not have been happier ... I could not have been happier, that is, until there came a bad sequence of events which intruded themselves on my well-being and made me realize how desperately at odds Sophie and Nathan had been (and still were) with each other, how unsimulated had been that quality in Sophie of foreboding and fright, together with the hints she had let fall of bitter discord.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsimulated means not and reverses the meaning of simulated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Had to run during a training simulation outside.†  (source)
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