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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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    My haptic suit did its best to simulate the sensation of torrents of falling water striking my body, but it felt more like someone pounding on my head, shoulders, and back with a bundle of sticks.  (source)
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    They were also schooled in bailout simulations, jumping from parked planes.  (source)
    simulations = practices in non-real environments
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    Jimmy had found the video simulation pretty exciting.†  (source)
    simulation = something that is not real, but is made to imitate or behave like something that is
    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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    We spent the next few months doing a lot of simulations in places like Louisiana and good old Fort Bragg, where we basically learned the best ways to kill people and break things; and after a while, my unit, as part of the First Infantry Division—aka the Big Red One—was sent to Germany.  (source)
    simulations = practices in non-real environments made to imitate or represent real situations
    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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    Later he punctured her calf to simulate snakebite so she could use it in some way as an excuse for not being on time to shake worms from tobacco leaves.  (source)
    simulate = imitate
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    Connor nearly dropped his spoon at the mention of Rowan's high-tech and rigorous training simulator.†  (source)
    simulator = something that imitates something else
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    So Leonardo Vetra was simulating the compressed point of energy from which the universe supposedly sprang.†  (source)
    simulating = making an imitation or representation of
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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)
    unsimulated = not an imitation or representation; or not previously imitated
    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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    Some small part of him wondered if his optic nerves were being manipulated by WICKED somehow, if it was all yet another simulation.†  (source)
    simulation = something that is not real, but is made to imitate or behave like something that is
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