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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
  • It contained thousands of simulated worlds where the keys might be hidden, and it could take a gunter years to conduct a thorough search of any one of them.   (source)
  • At such moments he charged Buck, who retreated craftily, luring him on by a simulated inability to escape.   (source)
    simulated = pretended (not real)
  • since the death of Joselito all the bull-fighters had been developing a technique that simulated this appearance of danger in order to give a fake emotional feeling, while the bull-fighter was really safe.   (source)
    simulated = imitated
  • As a game, Three Body only borrows the background of human society to simulate the development of Trisolaris.†   (source)
  • Her research showed that people were just as happy with simulated, virtual objects as they were with real, physical ones.†   (source)
  • Normally the big cats were not given food one day a week, to simulate conditions in the wild.†   (source)
  • A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down.†   (source)
  • She loved how she could, alone, in the bathroom, simulate the effect of those hands, could, with her own hand, approximate the pressure he applied to her.†   (source)
  • And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with fear' " Whereupon, Mr. Wiggin paused for the full effect of the shepherds cringing at the sight of Owen struggling to get his feet on the floor—Barb Wiggin operated the creaky apparatus that lowered Owen, too, placing him dangerously near the lit candles that simulated the campfires around which the shepherds watched their flock.†   (source)
  • Some small part of him wondered if his optic nerves were being manipulated by WICKED somehow, if it was all yet another simulation.†   (source)
  • He simulates a deep breath, moving his chest in rhythm with mine, forcing me to take a breath and follow his lead.†   (source)
  • So Leonardo Vetra was simulating the compressed point of energy from which the universe supposedly sprang.†   (source)
  • I watch my classmates run along a giant track surrounded by a 360-degree screen simulating some desolate warfront road.†   (source)
  • The night-sky simulation was on, the faux moon was shining, the Crakers — as far as he could tell — were peacefully asleep.†   (source)
  • And, with that realization, the virtual-reality simulator flipped into color.†   (source)
  • The soldiers simply call it the Block, but the tattoo on my arm lists it as S.S.C., short for Simulated Street Combat.†   (source)
  • Mark is dressed as a zombie of sorts, wearing dark tattered clothes, with black and gray makeup on his face, splotches of red in random places to simulate blood.†   (source)
  • Today we'll try some combat simulations.†   (source)
  • By then Kassad had learned that the exercises were something more than mere simulations.†   (source)
  • The film explains that when Kirk was a cadet, he reprogrammed the simulation because "he didn't believe in the no-win scenario."†   (source)
  • For the hyperbaric pressure testing, the chamber was a large torpedo-looking thing that simulated going down 60 feet underwater and staying there.†   (source)
  • If we were simulating an attack from the side while we were moving, I could grab the M-4 I was carrying and shoot in that direction.†   (source)
  • Researchers knew from simulated zero-gravity studies using animals that space travel could cause cardiovascular changes, degradation of bone and muscle, and a loss of red blood cells.†   (source)
  • "Skip says he can generate a computer simulation of its effectiveness," he concluded.†   (source)
  • It is the closest simulation of death that the Metaverse can offer, but all it really does is cause the user a lot of annoyance.†   (source)
  • This is designed to simulate emergency conditions in a U.S. Navy warship.†   (source)
  • Mixed with sweat, the dust formed an abrasive paste that collected in the clammy spaces between the feet and the simulated leather of the boys' cleats, gnawing blisters into their ankles.†   (source)
  • Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison.†   (source)
  • There's a rise in the curve on the tracker screen: a simulated hill.†   (source)
  • Then he thought that Gaston was not as foolish as he appeared, but, quite the contrary, was a man of infinite steadiness, ability, and patience who had set about to conquer his wife with the weariness of eternal agreement, of never saying no, of simulating a limitless conformity, letting her become enmeshed in her own web until the day she could no longer bear the tedium of the illusions close at hand and would pack the bags herself to go back to Europe.†   (source)
  • An inflatable plastic chamber about the size of a coffin in which the atmospheric pressure is increased to simulate a lower altitude.†   (source)
  • "Tell 'at rocket boy we'll all be there!" someone yelled, and then I heard them do a simulated countdown.†   (source)
  • Had to run during a training simulation outside.†   (source)
  • They didn't prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver.†   (source)
  • Defending the buildings within this setting were an opposing force of SEALs armed with M4 rifles and 9mm simulation rounds—actual bullets with liquid, paint-filled tips, advertised as nonlethal for training purposes.†   (source)
  • They were battered until they smiled constantly and simulated joy at the sight of customers, because men would not pay as much for sex with girls with reddened eyes and haggard faces.†   (source)
  • Vampyre saliva also secretes endorphins during blood drinking, which stimulate the pleasure zones of the brain, human and vampyre, and can actually simulate orgasm.†   (source)
  • As often as she could she caught her son's eye, nodded at him and simulated a smile which, though flimsily constructed, affirmed her loyalty.†   (source)
  • Kristy asked me, and I nodded, my eyes on the TV, which was showing a computer simulation of the mega-wave.†   (source)
  • Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?†   (source)
  • Chief White Halfoat demanded with simulated belligerence, raising his voice again so that Doc Daneeka would hear.†   (source)
  • She'd intended to do a white frosting to simulate the ice planet from one of the Star Wars movies.†   (source)
  • In order to better simulate the look of the pottery figures, many young women dampened their skirts so that their legs, beneath the sopping garments, were more apparent.†   (source)
  • Connor nearly dropped his spoon at the mention of Rowan's high-tech and rigorous training simulator.†   (source)
  • There were several items of real silk, the kind no simulation could match.†   (source)
  • We're basing the conclusions on a simulation.†   (source)
  • They raised the flag over the statehouse with the governor, and with 100,000 Bostonians observed simulated military maneuvers on the Boston Common.†   (source)
  • In the Jamia Darul Uloom Haqqania madrassa in Peshawar, which translates as the "University of All Righteous Knowledge," students later boasted to the New York Times how they celebrated that day after hearing of the attack—running gleefully through the sprawling compound, stabbing their fingers into the palms of their hands, simulating what their teachers taught them was Allah's will in action—the impact of righteous airplanes on infidel office buildings.†   (source)
  • Watching the performers, who spent most of their time practicing on simulators, coax notes and chords out of the relics was like witnessing a resurrection.†   (source)
  • Since it turns out that people respond similarly to computer-simulated faces and real people, they react negatively when their expectations are crossed.†   (source)
  • On some carousels, the horses go up and down in a galloping motion simulating what it might be like to ride a real horse.†   (source)
  • He counted the other vehicles in addition to the fuel truck; there were nine parked by the fence-two station wagons, four sedans and three suburban vans, all American-made or simulated as such.†   (source)
  • I looked surprised but wasn't; this was a "simulated question" for which an answer had been taped.†   (source)
  • Throughout Green Team, we were on a one-hour recall to simulate what we would experience on the second deck.†   (source)
  • There, after a glass of wine with his companion, and the simulated splitting of shares, Alessandro had only to cross the Tiber and he would be home.†   (source)
  • Bugger's well equipped, or he uses something large to simulate sex.†   (source)
  • I will not play the part of defending myself, where no defense is possible, and I will not simulate the illusion of dealing with a tribunal of justice.†   (source)
  • Amusement park rides use physics laws to simulate danger, while the rides themselves are typically very safe.†   (source)
  • Fredi simulated having a seizure, contorting himself and shaking violently.†   (source)
  • A thousand soldiers, positioned in foxholes only 7,000 yards away from the blast, surged forward minutes after the explosion in a simulated attack to encircle and capture the devastated area.†   (source)
  • During the days they simulated search-and-destroy missions in a friendly little village just outside the Combat Center.†   (source)
  • There wasn't a black-faced, wrecked-back miner in sight, but instead, smack in the center of the float, on a raised platform simulating a coal tipple, stood a pretty young woman with blond hair, a perfect complexion, and brilliant white teeth, wearing a sash that read "Miss Bituminous Coal 1940" and waving her hand as mechanically as a windup doll.†   (source)
  • Now, feeling oddly guilty as she thought about that and other things, she gave Lane's arm a special little pressure of simulated affection.†   (source)
  • By the standard that I have three hundred hours of time in the Monkey Business and controlling the Paws, that I have another six hundred in simulators, I'm a more qualified space pilot than anyone on Earth.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I would leave the simulated test and enter into forbidden territory.†   (source)
  • The restaurant accommodations, great scallops of counters with simulated leather stools, are as spotless as and not unlike the lavatories.†   (source)
  • We maintain that from the moment Leamas returned from Berlin to London he lived a part; that he simulated a swift decline into degeneracy, drunkenness and debt, that he assaulted a tradesman in full public view and affected anti-American sentiments—all solely in order to attract the attention of the Abteilung.†   (source)
  • A sweet, unthinking, submissive woman, she had retained a faithful love for her husband to the very end; through the dumb-show of the sorrow Sophie simulated for her benefit she could not help but grieve for her mother's grief.†   (source)
  • He thought of creation, the creature, creativeness, the instincts of creation and simulation.†   (source)
  • He lay quietly in the hydropatlhic bed while his heart shuddered and his eyes focused at random on in the room, simulating a calm he could not feel.†   (source)
  • Simulations aren't real; they pose no real threat to me, so logically, I shouldn't be afraid of them, but my reaction is visceral.   (source)
    simulations = non-real environments (made to seem real)
  • [regarding madness] It is true, such things are often simulated, but the pretence itself is a symptom.   (source)
    simulated = pretended (not genuine)
  • My software is no different than say ....a flight simulator program.†   (source)
  • Any game theory simulation of society is more robust if you include a criminal element.†   (source)
  • In addition, the apparatus augmented actual reactions with mathematical simulations.†   (source)
  • By the fourth or fifth time you get shot in simulation, you're okay.†   (source)
  • No one else had noticed anything strange in the simulation.†   (source)
  • But instead of mindlessly following these same patterns, I will be controlling the enemy simulation.†   (source)
  • Well, in the simulations, my blood pressure and heart rate would start out steady.†   (source)
  • He'd been working on the simulation program nearly around the clock since Monday.†   (source)
  • There were simulated blows to his head, including one with a Mason's stone maul.†   (source)
  • To drill this, they made us stay in the MAV simulator for three miserable days.†   (source)
  • Our field training tasks were tough, combat mission simulations.†   (source)
  • The simulated candlelight flickers across the round black metal table in front of me.†   (source)
  • Simulations of a man and a woman, ripping off their clothes, grinning like maniacs.†   (source)
  • Jimmy had found the video simulation pretty exciting.†   (source)
  • We've tested it all out and run simulations galore.†   (source)
  • "Are you real-outside the simulation?" he asked in the Japanese-English of that era.†   (source)
  • "Most of what you see is computer simulations," Mazer said.†   (source)
  • How happy they were with the simulations depended on how real they appeared.†   (source)
  • I wore a headpiece and special gloves while viewing a simulation.†   (source)
  • He got to the simulator and found his squadron leaders already on the wire, waiting for him.†   (source)
  • That could've been a simulation," I said.†   (source)
  • THERE WAS ONE SIMULATION THAT LEFT A DEEP IMpression on me.†   (source)
  • Again it was in the final hours of an OCS:HTN simulation.†   (source)
  • In this simulation they obviously don't know what our weapons can do.†   (source)
  • He wondered how the simulation would deal with his death.†   (source)
  • The enemy outnumbered him a thousand to one, the simulator glowed green with them.†   (source)
  • Then run the simulations and see which ones are hardest, which easiest.†   (source)
  • For the first time I noticed that on her simulated canvas web belt there hung a FORCE death-wand.†   (source)
  • Then the simulator field went blank, the ships disappeared, and everything changed at once.†   (source)
  • If you prefer not to have them in the room, we'll have them watch on another simulator.†   (source)
  • There were other people in the simulator room.†   (source)
  • This is a simulation of a real invasion.†   (source)
  • One day, eating a meal with Graff, he asked, "Is that all the simulator does?"†   (source)
  • He walked to the simulator controls and sat down, ready to start.†   (source)
  • We did computer simulations on probable results.†   (source)
  • Only at the very periphery of the simulator did the M.D. field weaken.†   (source)
  • Years, to develop the new battlerooms and run the simulations.†   (source)
  • Then he went to the simulator room for practice.†   (source)
  • And for pleasure, there was the simulator, the most perfect videogame he had ever played.†   (source)
  • Ender selected one starship, made it blink in the simulator field, and spoke into the microphone.†   (source)
  • They've been flogging us through the simulator for three months now," said Dink.†   (source)
  • You'll learn who they are and how they think from the way they work with the simulator.†   (source)
  • The simulator would display the situation on the screen.†   (source)
  • He found that a great deal of what he learned at Battle School transferred to the simulator.†   (source)
  • I've fought a million hyperbattles in the simulations and I've never lost.†   (source)
  • One of our people put this simulation together.†   (source)
  • But we've run the simulations a thousand times and I just can't see any alternative.†   (source)
  • "You won't find store-bought or simulations in my house," Hetta said proudly.†   (source)
  • The running's hard and we're nervous 'bout tonight's simulation, but no complaints.†   (source)
  • Stopping at the door of the container that simulated Cl, I scanned inside before entering.†   (source)
  • Oftentimes she wore long scarves, which she knotted at the back of her neck like a simulated bun.†   (source)
  • No offense, but simulations like this are only, what, 70 percent?†   (source)
  • It looks like an ordinary decorative device that simulates old-fashioned turn bolts.†   (source)
  • Most importers are satisfied with simulations.†   (source)
  • The simulation runs at an exaggerated speed.†   (source)
  • When my faction was put under a simulation and turned into an army.†   (source)
  • Disregard of tactical command and doctrine, the team being in simulated combat.†   (source)
  • CDC ran another simulation using the latest data.†   (source)
  • He worked with simulated skill and composure, feeling Snowden's lack-luster gaze resting upon him.†   (source)
  • And this massive so-called tally is not a simulation despite that armband you're wearing.†   (source)
  • The official simulation lasted one day but she's been doing this for weeks now.†   (source)
  • Then let me tell you that I will never resort to simulations to get my way.†   (source)
  • Jacques de Raison had shown the simulation and presented his evidence on the Raison Strain.†   (source)
  • "Pass me those scissors, Miss Kitty," he said in Matt Dillon simulation.†   (source)
  • Mostly replicas, harmless simulations, but some of the genuine article.†   (source)
  • Plus which we don't have our victims laid out where we'd want them if this was an actual simulation.†   (source)
  • Unless he was very mistaken, not all her groans and cries were simulated.†   (source)
  • I told her about Apartheid Simulation Day, standing in the doorway.†   (source)
  • Now the simulation changed to show the spread of the virus from one host to another.†   (source)
  • "That was quite a simulation," said Max, pouring himself lukewarm coffee.†   (source)
  • I know you designed the attack simulation.†   (source)
  • The best gauge of the battalion's readiness was the combat simulation at the end of each day.†   (source)
  • We don't want simulations," Eve reminded him.†   (source)
  • It was hard to grasp, even with his simulations.†   (source)
  • But there is no substitute for a planned simulation.†   (source)
  • I want this new reality to be a simulation that I could manipulate if I could only make sense of it.†   (source)
  • Lucia and Cynthia, can you spend the morning working on a simulation for tonight?†   (source)
  • Monique had seen a thousand superbug simulations.†   (source)
  • Are you people sure you're ready for a simulation?†   (source)
  • The people in the Bureau, who supplied Jeanine with the attack simulation, are not innocent.†   (source)
  • Are you saying you saw a chance to use the real event in order to rehearse the simulation?†   (source)
  • There's no point to mastering easy simulations—they'll only get people killed.†   (source)
  • The simulation will emphasize using Zenuvian arrows on the proper targets.†   (source)
  • We are not simulating a particular spillage today.†   (source)
  • She used adult words and simulated, insofar as she was able, adult attitudes and emotions.†   (source)
  • He then hobbles along the simulated forty-three-foot hallway.†   (source)
  • Klein's nurses and firefighters would size up a situation almost immediately and act, drawing on experience and intuition and a kind of rough mental simulation.†   (source)
  • This is left over from the very old days of the Metaverse, before the Monorail existed, when the only way to get around was to walk or to write a piece of ware that simulated a vehicle.†   (source)
  • There are four parts: an obstacle course that assesses your physical condition, a written tactics exam, a test of weapons proficiency, and a simulated combat situation in the Block.†   (source)
  • We got comfortable being in the water, jumped in with all our gear on, swam to the rescue hoist, hooked our pilot to it, did hand signals, lit the Mark-13 flare, and simulated rescues.†   (source)
  • That's a simulated result, of course.†   (source)
  • In the film, Starfleet cadets are faced with a simulated training scenario where, no matter what they do, their entire crew is killed.†   (source)
  • Another said: "I began to feel that I was losing my identity, that the person I call —, the person who volunteered to get me into this prison (because it was a prison to me, it still is a prison to me, I don't regard it as an experiment or a simulation ...) was distant from me, was remote, until finally I wasn't that person.†   (source)
  • There's something about climbing to the highest point you can see, and there's no one clearing a path for you, no simulator.†   (source)
  • Then I simulated reloading and getting back into position looking through my scope, continuing to scan for more "booger-eaters"—the SEAL term for bad guys.†   (source)
  • It plows into the Street fifty feet in front of him, disintegrates, and explodes, blooming into a tangled cloud of wreckage and flame that skids across the pavement toward him, growing to envelop him so that all he can see is turbulent flame, perfectly simulated and rendered.†   (source)
  • The Dallas' four torpedo tubes were loaded with three Mark 48s and a decoy, an expensive MOSS (mobile submarine simulator).†   (source)
  • Sometimes when Blue Team fired a missile or launched a plane, a missile actually fired or a plane actually took off, and whenever it didn't, one of forty-two separate computer models simulated each of those actions so precisely that the people in the war room often couldn't tell it wasn't real.†   (source)
  • This was a simulated scene from the Normandy beaches, and it did induce a degree of panic, because no one knew what was happening or what we were supposed to be doing besides hitting the deck.†   (source)
  • It was also capable of generating feelings of extreme heat and cold, even simulating the sensation of being exposed in a snowstorm.†   (source)
  • Not really a blue sky, only the curved ceiling of the bubble-dome, with a clever projection device that simulated dawn, sunlight, evening, night†   (source)
  • I would acquire, aim, and even do a simulated trigger pull, going through my rehearsed breathing and followthrough routine while picturing the actual engagement.†   (source)
  • The crew quarters stood against the outer hull of the constantly spinning ship to maximize simulated gravity.†   (source)
  • When the reaction reached a certain stage, the computer would build a mathematical model of it based on intermediate products and finish the remainder of the reaction via simulation.†   (source)
  • It is hot and humid in the room, reminding me of the tropical ocean simulation we had in Science once, the one about the coral reefs that teemed with fish before the Warming killed them all.†   (source)
  • Set up the contact tape on the simulator and make sure the operators all know what this guy sounds like, but get some rest.†   (source)
  • Simulation, huh?†   (source)
  • The instructors simulated our aircraft being shot down, and we had to survive: tie knots, cross a river, and build a tent out of a parachute, with only minimal food like broth and apples.†   (source)
  • I think again of that ocean simulation, how the instructor paused it in the middle to explain something, and the fish projected around the room stared back at us, unblinking, until she switched the simulation back on.†   (source)
  • In that exercise the Dallas, teamed with HMS Swiftsure, had used the foul weather to penetrate and ravage the simulated enemy formation.†   (source)
  • Not long after second phase started, I was in a dive tower, a special training apparatus that simulates a dive.†   (source)
  • We've run all the simulations.†   (source)
  • A lot of them look like simulations.†   (source)
  • After we set up the model universe to correspond to the current state of the real universe, the motion of the model thereafter should be an accurate simulation of the future, including the motion of the sun.†   (source)
  • Not simulated combat.†   (source)
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