Sample Sentences for
virtual
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virtual as in:  virtual organization

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    I qualified for the tournament but have virtually no chance of winning.
    virtually = almost
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    We can't accept that from a virtual stranger.  (source)
    virtual = almost a
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    I was introduced to the OASIS at an early age, because my mother used it as a virtual babysitter.  (source)
    virtual = to effectively be something without entirely being it
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    A hypercard can carry a virtually infinite amount of information.  (source)
    virtually = almost
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    If anything, screaming was counterproductive, because Arnold now faced the virtual certainty that Nedry wasn't coming back, which meant that Arnold himself had to go into the computer code and try and figure out what had gone wrong.  (source)
    virtual = almost a
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    WHEN SAEED AND NADIA finally had coffee together in the cafeteria, which happened the following week, after the very next session of their class, Saeed asked her about her conservative and virtually all-concealing black robe.  (source)
    virtually = almost completely
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    He had made a new bow, with slender limbs and a more fluid, gentle pull, but could not hit the fish though he sat in the water and was, in the end, surrounded by a virtual cloud of small fish.  (source)
    virtual = to be like something, but not so strictly speaking
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    Ignorance, disease, poverty and fear had virtually ceased to exist.  (source)
    virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
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    The three hundred residents, mostly Australians, were shrunken down to virtual stick figures.  (source)
    virtual = almost
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    A junkie lay there, virtually indistinguishable from every other homeless person in New York.  (source)
    virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
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    The Mahdi army was out there, and the area was a virtual no-go zone for Americans.  (source)
    virtual = to effectively be something without entirely being it
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    For him it was a cause of virtually religious proportions.  (source)
    virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
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    And what did virtually all of those opportunities have in common?  (source)
    virtually = almost
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virtual as in:  computer's virtual world

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The flight simulator permits learning to fly in a safe, virtual reality.
virtual reality = simulated by a computer
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    Virtual reality goggles, gloves, and a body suit helps the computer character mimic your movements.
    virtual reality = simulated (via a computer)
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    The fear landscape accesses that data and presents you with a series of virtual obstacles.  (source)
    virtual = computer-simulated
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    My virtual surroundings looked almost (but not quite) real.  (source)
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    But even now the city's freewheeling virtual world stood in stark contrast to the day-to-day lives of most people...  (source)
    virtual = simulated by a computer
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    Movies and magazine articles on the subject are becoming more frequent, but cases are often sensationalized, and we are too far removed to understand the virtual reality and pain of the victim child.  (source)
    virtual reality = something simulated by a computer
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    With the other two thousand I bought a drone and a pair of virtual-reality goggles.†  (source)
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    Her research showed that people were just as happy with simulated, virtual objects as they were with real, physical ones.  (source)
    virtual = simulated by a computer
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    Because he was a man who appreciated tradition, his personal gym was also stocked with old-fashioned free weights, incline benches, and a virtual reality system.  (source)
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    And, with that realization, the virtual-reality simulator flipped into color.†  (source)
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    Of course, the bulk of their work is to act as virtual memory and store intermediate calculation results.  (source)
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    It used virtual reality to test what sorts of effects battle has on your body.  (source)
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    There were virtual-reality suits with working laser guns.†  (source)
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    When I taught the "Building Virtual Worlds" class at Carnegie Mellon, we'd do peer feedback every two weeks.  (source)
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