All 5 Uses of
virtual
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- For the better part of a half hour, the patient enumerated reasons for and against each of the two dates: previous engagements, proximity to other engagements, possible meteorological conditions, virtually anything that one could think about concerning a simple date.†
Chpt 2 *virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
- Coke was plunged into crisis, and just a few months later, the company was forced to bring back the original formula as Classic Coke—at which point, sales of New Coke virtually disappeared.†
Chpt 5
- "In my second year working at the Met [Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York], I had the good luck of having this European curator come over and go through virtually everything with me," he says.†
Chpt 5
- The reason is that it would be virtually impossible for me to pull a gun on the officer if he's standing behind me.†
Chpt 6
- Hanks was then a virtual unknown.†
Chpt 1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense
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(2)
(virtual as in: computer's virtual world) something simulated by a computer