simulate
verb (used with object)
to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like).
was simulating
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past progressiveof simulate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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
Sharkey, with that diabolical cunning and audacity which were among his main characteristics, was simulating the part which Craddock would himself have played had he come back victorious.
From The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He was simulating indifference, and I put him off the track at once.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
Mrs. Talcott, looking at her companion, saw that she had either actually fainted or was simulating a very realistic fainting-fit.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
