simulate
verb (used with object)
to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like).
were 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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All the adjoining components worked as a continuous result making sure the particles they were simulating went to the right place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2024
We found it easy to generate fire imagery in the engine, but what Tommy was describing was different than what we were simulating.
From The Verge ● Jan. 30, 2019
“So they knew, if they were simulating an infantry regiment moving across an area, how many times a day would the regiments send messages to battalion, would battalion send messages to regiments.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2013
Florida schools have reason to be careful: Three of the 9/11 hijackers were simulating flights in large jets within six months of arriving for training in Venice, Fla., along the Gulf Coast.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2011
I soon got to know three or four men who, like myself, were personally averse to bullets, and who were simulating other forms of disease with more or less success.
From The Autobiography of a Quack and the Case of George Dedlow by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
