How to Use simulation in a Sentence

simulation

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  • They use computer simulation to predict weather conditions.
  • And the guy in the room wasn't the role player in on the simulation.
    — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The golfers angling for the sneakers will be placed in a simulation of the Ryder Cup.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The simulation included the same types of weapons the gunman used.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • It was first used on Coco for cloth simulation on a city full of skeletons.
    — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The most popular form of simulation is through the video game Madden.
    — Jon Hoefling, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Per the simulation, more than 10 humans were enough to shoo away any of the predators, and thus the researchers found that a population of about a dozen hit the sweet spot.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Lane said some data being used by the state might not be updated and would change the simulation.
    — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 19 July 2023
  • The simulation has been tested by captains who work for British Airways and Ryanair.
    — Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Because the simulation software for this sort of stuff is well advanced.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • For a decade the best simulations have been able to predict climate change effects down to a 25-square-kilometer area.
    — Susan Cosier, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The reversible toll lanes are hosting the simulations during the midday hour, when the road closes to shift lanes in the southbound direction.
    — Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The most recent addition to this canon is Gran Turismo, a movie based on the PlayStation racing simulation game of the same name.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 27 Aug. 2023
  • But these can be points of growth, simulation and new beginnings.
    — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • She’s trapped in a simulation by her partner (Harry Styles).
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 July 2023
  • Under this simulation, cases would balloon, with the model bathing the counties in red measles dots.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The next step was to run computer simulations of the odd radio circle itself spanning the course of 750 million years.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • There’s so little of it here that Dubai Expo City sometimes feels like a 2050 climate change simulation.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Zubair had seen similar footage dozens of times before—from the simulation video game Arma 3, passed off as visuals from the Ukraine war.
    — Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2023
  • This team have used a state-of-the art weather simulation for the 5 days after each nuclear test to simulate how the fallout would have dispersed.
    — Discover Magazine, 26 July 2023
  • Some of Shohamy’s work supports the idea that the hippocampus might be important for mental simulations that are not rooted in time or place.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 8 June 2023
  • Using the simulations, Matsumoto and his team analyzed the gas’s motion and found that in the gas cloud where the protostars formed, the gas moving around the triplet stars creates shock waves.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • After running their simulations, the team focused on the one that most closely matched the original DART data.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Academics have the freedom to explore with low stakes: If a simulation fails, the consequences are virtual.
    — Celia Ford, WIRED, 5 July 2023
  • Thrill Island refers to the collection of tubes that clutter the ass of the ship and offer passengers six waterslides and a surfing simulation.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Starship simulation games are as old as PC gaming itself—some of us remember the mainframe Star Trek game of yore, after all.
    — Chuong Nguyen and Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
  • But there’s something beautiful about just breaking the simulation for true love.
    — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • The digital clock uses sunrise simulation to brighten the room before the alarm sounds slowly.
    — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Another theory that may need tweaking is the rate at which galaxies churn out stars, which tends to be too high in galaxy simulations.
    — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Saatchi turned his attention to building a simulation for Lucy and other Virtual Beings to live in.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 4 May 2023

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