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
  • Wardell says the simulation shows Biden made the right call.
    — Annalise Frank, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The golfers angling for the sneakers will be placed in a simulation of the Ryder Cup.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The gray progress bar shows that the simulation is getting ready.
    — USA Today, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The simulation included the same types of weapons the gunman used.
    — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The Mets will bring hitters from High-A Brooklyn to face the ace in a two-inning simulation.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 June 2024
  • These simulations aim to model how the universe grows and evolves over time.
    — Fan Zou, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2024
  • 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
  • Note: The times in this simulation might differ from other sources of eclipse data by a minute or two.
    — Melissa Locker, TIME, 6 Apr. 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
  • This film is almost like a simulation, like if Walden Two ran for many, many versions.
    — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • The simulation can show the traffic patterns of the brain—the neurons firing in response to a stimulus.
    — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • In one computer simulation, the team shot lunar dust from the moon’s surface toward the sun.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 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
  • The simulation that best matched the history of the wolves was one in which the animals tended to mate with partners of the opposite color.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But these can be points of growth, simulation and new beginnings.
    — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
  • In another simulation, the team shot off dust from a space platform about 1 million miles from Earth.
    — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Still, the dial goes to show what a vital part of Fujifilm’s appeal that these simulations have become over the years.
    — Chris Welch, The Verge, 16 May 2024
  • Their simulations also revealed the reason the Danish navy failed to see the seiche’s waves in person.
    — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • That’s a long way of saying that the stick figures set in motion in rom-coms get their simulation of amplitude from star power.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2022
  • She’s trapped in a simulation by her partner (Harry Styles).
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 July 2023
  • This is on vivid display in the chart below, which takes all the simulations from our model and buckets them by popular vote outcome.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Each simulation had a slightly different scenario for how the third star may have become a black hole and affected the motions of the other two stars.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024

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