was simulating
- past progressive of simulate.
Example Sentences
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The latter play came on the first snap of a drill in which the offense was simulating a two-minute situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
Ty understood that he didn't know the kind of war he was simulating in the game.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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All of this led me to suspect that the patient was simulating a good many of his symptoms, and that, at any rate, he was very much exaggerating his psychotic state.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Glueck, Bernard
Hanlon apparently lost all control of himself, and his voice and red face showed the anger he was simulating so well.
From Man of Many Minds by Evans, E. Everett (Edward Everett)
But here if was, simulating all shapes, even those of animated creatures, with the art of a mocking bird,—and simulating all in a material pure as amber, though more varied in color.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various