All 3 Uses of
virtual
in
Always Running
- I recalled when I first entered school in Watts, how I had been virtually written off, pushed into a corner with building blocks and treated like a pariah; how in Garvey I had been heaved out of classes and, later in high school, forced to drop out and labeled a failure!†
Chpt 9virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
- A jury found Fred Coates, the deputy responsible for Miguel Robles' death, innocent of all charges — as they had done for virtually every deputy ever accused of maiming or killing an unarmed person of color.†
Chpt 10 *
- At the same time, the immigration authorities terrorized Mexican and Central American immigrants, placing the Pico-Union community under a virtual state of siege (this area was one of the hardest hit in the fires).†
Chpt Epil.
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