All 7 Uses
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- The Japanese had installed more than 750 blockhouses and pillboxes around the island: little igloos of rounded concrete, reinforced with steel rods to make them virtually impervious even to artillery rounds.†
Chpt 1.
- Many families lived virtually next door.†
Chpt 2. *
- Against Japan, however, America would stand virtually alone in the Pacific.†
Chpt 3.
- They remained in action and virtually annihilated the Japanese regiment.†
Chpt 3.
- Now, in this hospital tent in a virtual city of hospital tents—they were sectioned off into streets, there were so many—the two boys spoke quietly as a heavy rain fell.†
Chpt 6. *
- The 3rd Platoon virtually annihilated the very enemy that had been massing for devastation of its own.†
Chpt 9.
- The day after that was a virtual repetition.†
Chpt 13.
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)