simulate
verb (used with object)
to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like).
had simulated
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past perfectof simulate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They recall those August days in Washington, where Ukrainian specialists had come to demonstrate their expertise and had simulated, coincidentally, an Iranian attack on Qatar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The island's defence ministry said Chinese military ships, aircraft, and drones had simulated attacks on the island and its navy.
From Reuters ● Aug. 8, 2022
Months before Friday’s mission, the company had simulated a full test mission for the first time, from launch to ISS docking to landing — something it didn’t do prior to Starliner’s first mission.
From The Verge ● Jul. 28, 2021
David Hale and Michael King had simulated games.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2019
Pausanias slightly recoiled, and the courtesy he had simulated, and which was essentially foreign to his vehement and haughty character, fell from him like a mask.
From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
