Simulacrum used in a sentence

Simulacrum in a sentence as a noun

Cuban's tl;dr point is that Wall Street has become a simulacrum.

Is it really saving someone's life, or is it just replacing them with a simulacrum that has their memories?

It would be interesting to amputate a leg from the spider in infancy and see if it creates a seven-legged simulacrum as an adult.

> With a few tweaks, I was able to make it just like vim as far as I could tellIt took me five seconds to hit walls and off-by-one issues revealing Vintage mode as a remote simulacrum of Vim.

From the surface appearance, any company could make a simulacrum of their main products with perhaps 90% cost-cutting... but life-saving devices are not like inferior iPods or graphic designs.

And how can I be sure that the digital simulacrum are really the same as the originals, if the originals are gone?For the moment, it's an easy answer—just don't use the subscription services, and keep owning things.

Is an iPad "magazine" more valuable than a physical one?Digital simulacrum of real-world objects are popular because they can be purchased on a whim, and produce instant gratification.

No one in their right mind should be arguing in terms of a locked-down, Disney-fied, compartmentalized experience versus a slow, infuriatingly clumsy and intermittently-available simulacrum of the same thing.

If we were to take the concept of a VR "thought is action" simulacrum seriously, I think that maybe current standards for what is seen as socially good can still apply there- it is better to "produce" so that others may "consume", than to primarily consume yourself.