virtual

adjective

Definition of virtualnext
as in seeming
very close to being something without actually being it Even after twenty years living on the same street the reclusive man was still a virtual stranger to his neighbors.

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Recent Examples of virtual Meta and OpenAI use virtual machines, which partition a server into several lighter virtual computers, so one server can support scores of users. — Kif Leswing,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026 Extra chaos Then Alex Albon’s Williams suffered a gearbox failure on lap 43, triggering a virtual safety car. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026 The battleground race’s general election between el Sayed and Rogers is a virtual toss-up, one of several neck-and-neck contests across the Senate map that could influence whether Republicans maintain the majority. — Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026 In March 2021, Levine joined BookClub, a virtual book club platform, as CMO. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for virtual
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  • But Chee’s first-person, present-tense narration differs from most in being, in a seeming paradox, retrospective.
    — Garth Greenwell, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Le Baiser isn’t the only work on offer to bear a seeming connection to Koons’s oeuvre.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 5 Oct. 2026
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“Virtual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtual. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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