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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
  • 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
  • At such moments he charged Buck, who retreated craftily, luring him on by a simulated inability to escape.   (source)
    simulated = pretended (not real)
  • "The game's V-suit cannot simulate the feeling of diminished gravity.†   (source)
  • Simulation, huh?†   (source)
  • Simulated musculature.†   (source)
  • Normally the big cats were not given food one day a week, to simulate conditions in the wild.†   (source)
  • I watch my classmates run along a giant track surrounded by a 360-degree screen simulating some desolate warfront road.†   (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)
  • So Leonardo Vetra was simulating the compressed point of energy from which the universe supposedly sprang.†   (source)
  • A lot of them look like simulations.†   (source)
  • A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He simulates a deep breath, moving his chest in rhythm with mine, forcing me to take a breath and follow his lead.†   (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)
  • An inflatable plastic chamber about the size of a coffin in which the atmospheric pressure is increased to simulate a lower altitude.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • By then Kassad had learned that the exercises were something more than mere simulations.†   (source)
  • This is designed to simulate emergency conditions in a U.S. Navy warship.†   (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)
  • "Tell 'at rocket boy we'll all be there!" someone yelled, and then I heard them do a simulated countdown.†   (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)
  • They didn't prepare us for this at the death simulator in Denver.†   (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)
  • There's a rise in the curve on the tracker screen: a simulated hill.†   (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)
  • She'd intended to do a white frosting to simulate the ice planet from one of the Star Wars movies.†   (source)
  • Today we'll try some combat simulations.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Had to run during a training simulation outside.†   (source)
  • Kristy asked me, and I nodded, my eyes on the TV, which was showing a computer simulation of the mega-wave.†   (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)
  • "Skip says he can generate a computer simulation of its effectiveness," he concluded.†   (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)
  • Not simulated combat.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Fredi simulated having a seizure, contorting himself and shaking violently.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Chief White Halfoat demanded with simulated belligerence, raising his voice again so that Doc Daneeka would hear.†   (source)
  • Bugger's well equipped, or he uses something large to simulate sex.†   (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)
  • We're basing the conclusions on a simulation.†   (source)
  • Amusement park rides use physics laws to simulate danger, while the rides themselves are typically very safe.†   (source)
  • There were several items of real silk, the kind no simulation could match.†   (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)
  • Stopping at the door of the container that simulated Cl, I scanned inside before entering.†   (source)
  • I've fought a million hyperbattles in the simulations and I've never lost.†   (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)
  • Since it turns out that people respond similarly to computer-simulated faces and real people, they react negatively when their expectations are crossed.†   (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)
  • I would leave the simulated test and enter into forbidden territory.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I looked surprised but wasn't; this was a "simulated question" for which an answer had been taped.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • During the days they simulated search-and-destroy missions in a friendly little village just outside the Combat Center.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To drill this, they made us stay in the MAV simulator for three miserable days.†   (source)
  • They've been flogging us through the simulator for three months now," said Dink.†   (source)
  • Again it was in the final hours of an OCS:HTN simulation.†   (source)
  • There were simulated blows to his head, including one with a Mason's stone maul.†   (source)
  • How happy they were with the simulations depended on how real they appeared.†   (source)
  • Well, in the simulations, my blood pressure and heart rate would start out steady.†   (source)
  • It appeared to be another Flicksync, like the WarGames simulation inside Gate One.†   (source)
  • And this massive so-called tally is not a simulation despite that armband you're wearing.†   (source)
  • Our field training tasks were tough, combat mission simulations.†   (source)
  • In addition, the apparatus augmented actual reactions with mathematical simulations.†   (source)
  • Jimmy had found the video simulation pretty exciting.†   (source)
  • That could've been a simulation," I said.†   (source)
  • Plus which we don't have our victims laid out where we'd want them if this was an actual simulation.†   (source)
  • Then the simulator field went blank, the ships disappeared, and everything changed at once.†   (source)
  • Columbus was where an OASIS user could get the fastest, most reliable connection to the simulation.†   (source)
  • "We've tested it all out and run simulations galore.†   (source)
  • Any game theory simulation of society is more robust if you include a criminal element.†   (source)
  • THERE WAS ONE SIMULATION THAT LEFT A DEEP IMpression on me.†   (source)
  • But instead of mindlessly following these same patterns, I will be controlling the enemy simulation.†   (source)
  • I wore a headpiece and special gloves while viewing a simulation.†   (source)
  • A second later, the entire Zork simulation reset itself.†   (source)
  • "Are you real-outside the simulation?" he asked in the Japanese-English of that era.†   (source)
  • But there is no substitute for a planned simulation.†   (source)
  • For the first time I noticed that on her simulated canvas web belt there hung a FORCE death-wand.†   (source)
  • It managed to overcome limitations that had plagued previous simulated realities.†   (source)
  • We did computer simulations on probable results.†   (source)
  • Are you people sure you're ready for a simulation?†   (source)
  • And I definitely wouldn't create a detailed simulation of the place.†   (source)
  • In this simulation they obviously don't know what our weapons can do.†   (source)
  • We are not simulating a particular spillage today.†   (source)
  • No one else had noticed anything strange in the simulation.†   (source)
  • He wondered how the simulation would deal with his death.†   (source)
  • Years, to develop the new battlerooms and run the simulations.†   (source)
  • Are you saying you saw a chance to use the real event in order to rehearse the simulation?†   (source)
  • Why would Halliday include a broken game in this simulation?†   (source)
  • Every artifact was unique, meaning that only one copy of it existed in the entire simulation.†   (source)
  • Ender selected one starship, made it blink in the simulator field, and spoke into the microphone.†   (source)
  • The enemy outnumbered him a thousand to one, the simulator glowed green with them.†   (source)
  • Halliday had copied every last detail from the film and re-created it as an interactive simulation.†   (source)
  • Just as with Dungeons of Daggorath, I was now playing a simulation within a simulation.†   (source)
  • "Most of what you see is computer simulations," Mazer said.†   (source)
  • "But three of them beat Halliday's score and are now inside the Grail simulation."†   (source)
  • If you prefer not to have them in the room, we'll have them watch on another simulator.†   (source)
  • Gregarious Simulation Systems was located in Columbus, and so was their main OASIS server vault.†   (source)
  • Only at the very periphery of the simulator did the M.D. field weaken.†   (source)
  • The Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation was a big place.†   (source)
  • Then he went to the simulator room for practice.†   (source)
  • Inside the simulation, no one knew who you really were, unless you wanted them to.†   (source)
  • This is a simulation of a real invasion.†   (source)
  • You'll learn who they are and how they think from the way they work with the simulator.†   (source)
  • They would start charging a monthly fee for access to the simulation.†   (source)
  • Even in its first primitive incarnation, the scope of the simulation was staggering.†   (source)
  • He found that a great deal of what he learned at Battle School transferred to the simulator.†   (source)
  • When they stepped through the gate, each one entered a stand-alone simulation.†   (source)
  • And for pleasure, there was the simulator, the most perfect videogame he had ever played.†   (source)
  • Playing through the WarGames simulation will be a piece of cake for them.†   (source)
  • One day, eating a meal with Graff, he asked, "Is that all the simulator does?"†   (source)
  • It was the one place in the entire simulation where I was truly safe.†   (source)
  • Then run the simulations and see which ones are hardest, which easiest.†   (source)
  • This must be the simulation they used to keep indents calm during the ride downtown.†   (source)
  • He walked to the simulator controls and sat down, ready to start.†   (source)
  • Gregarious Simulation Systems elevated the MMO concept to an entirely new level.†   (source)
  • The simulator would display the situation on the screen.†   (source)
  • There were other people in the simulator room.†   (source)
  • I pulled on my visor and loaded up the Gym, a stand-alone simulation.†   (source)
  • He got to the simulator and found his squadron leaders already on the wire, waiting for him.†   (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)
  • Connor nearly dropped his spoon at the mention of Rowan's high-tech and rigorous training simulator.†   (source)
  • The people in the Bureau, who supplied Jeanine with the attack simulation, are not innocent.†   (source)
  • Unless he was very mistaken, not all her groans and cries were simulated.†   (source)
  • No offense, but simulations like this are only, what, 70 percent?†   (source)
  • Oftentimes she wore long scarves, which she knotted at the back of her neck like a simulated bun.†   (source)
  • It looks like an ordinary decorative device that simulates old-fashioned turn bolts.†   (source)
  • Mostly replicas, harmless simulations, but some of the genuine article.†   (source)
  • He'd been working on the simulation program nearly around the clock since Monday.†   (source)
  • By the fourth or fifth time you get shot in simulation, you're okay."†   (source)
  • The official simulation lasted one day but she's been doing this for weeks now.†   (source)
  • Monique had seen a thousand superbug simulations.†   (source)
  • The running's hard and we're nervous 'bout tonight's simulation, but no complaints.†   (source)
  • He worked with simulated skill and composure, feeling Snowden's lack-luster gaze resting upon him.†   (source)
  • The simulation runs at an exaggerated speed.†   (source)
  • Jacques de Raison had shown the simulation and presented his evidence on the Raison Strain.†   (source)
  • Then let me tell you that I will never resort to simulations to get my way.†   (source)
  • "That was quite a simulation," said Max, pouring himself lukewarm coffee.†   (source)
  • We don't want simulations," Eve reminded him.†   (source)
  • "You won't find store-bought or simulations in my house," Hetta said proudly.†   (source)
  • " "Pass me those scissors, Miss Kitty," he said in Matt Dillon simulation.†   (source)
  • CDC ran another simulation using the latest data.†   (source)
  • I told her about Apartheid Simulation Day, standing in the doorway.†   (source)
  • I want this new reality to be a simulation that I could manipulate if I could only make sense of it.†   (source)
  • Most importers are satisfied with simulations.†   (source)
  • The best gauge of the battalion's readiness was the combat simulation at the end of each day.†   (source)
  • Now the simulation changed to show the spread of the virus from one host to another.†   (source)
  • When my faction was put under a simulation and turned into an army.†   (source)
  • Lucia and Cynthia, can you spend the morning working on a simulation for tonight?†   (source)
  • It was hard to grasp, even with his simulations.†   (source)
  • I know you designed the attack 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)
  • She used adult words and simulated, insofar as she was able, adult attitudes and emotions.†   (source)
  • Disregard of tactical command and doctrine, the team being in simulated combat.†   (source)
  • He then hobbles along the simulated forty-three-foot hallway.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
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