How to Use emulation in a Sentence

emulation

noun
  • The tricky part is the very nature of the system itself: The RG351P plays these games via emulation software.
    Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Legal emulation or no, Yuzu may not want to risk finding out in a court of law.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Biomimicry, the emulation of nature to solve complex design problems, is on the rise as well.
    Sofia Celeste, WWD, 20 June 2024
  • And so, in emulation, the founders gave us three equal branches of government.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Our Xbox emulation tests resulted in frame rates all over the shop.
    Wired, 9 Aug. 2022
  • All that was required was a tiny elite of warriors to trigger the emulation from below.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2010
  • But Cifaldi said that without tools like emulation, video games would go the way of historic films.
    Bijan Stephen, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Nintendon’t Companies have long turned a blind eye to emulation, but maybe that’s going to change soon.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 27 July 2018
  • How does Ciri’s emulation of Geralt prepare her to take on any foe or doom her to a life of otherness — or both?
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • People around the world must once again come to see the United States as a democracy worthy of emulation.
    Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
  • That, and the legality of emulation tricks like this can be a little hazy.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2016
  • After all, this is not about emulation or trying to make a whisky carbon copy.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Already, there are signs of emulation throughout the league.
    Emma Carmichael, ELLE, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Should Stewart decide to reintroduce length in her life, the process is bound to be marked by moments rife for emulation.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 29 June 2017
  • That said, Tears of the Kingdom is rather easy to find online at the moment, as are exhaustive guides to getting the game running in PC emulation tools.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 8 May 2023
  • This 8-bit re-release has some emulation-like tweaks and perks, but this is otherwise not a remake.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Oct. 2020
  • To him, the look is an emulation of everyday style in South and Central America.
    Ashley Garcia Lezcano, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Just like the Analogue Pocket, the Duo relies on the actual game cartridges and discs — not emulation.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Commoner, especially among the denizens of the academy in the West, is a form of evasion that goes hand in hand with emulation.
    Douglas Murray, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
  • The launch of the Surface Pro X in 2019 was a lot better thanks to improved emulation and underlying Windows changes.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 20 May 2024
  • But as with old video games, emulation offers a much more convenient way to run old software.
    Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2022
  • For the European launch, the Emotion Engine was removed, with software emulation picking up some — but not all — of the slack.
    Sam Byford, The Verge, 11 July 2019
  • The monuments on display at Studio Gallery were made by nature, or in emulation of it.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • This taught me that not everyone worthy of love is worthy of emulation.
    Quinn Norton, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The United States can no longer pass itself off as a democracy worthy of emulation.
    Michael Shifter, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2022
  • His rise to fame not only inspired many runners and skiers but invited study and emulation.
    Nick Heil, Outside Online, 12 July 2018
  • Now a team of preservationists is using emulation to bring them back.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Some stand strong in emulation of trees, and others are tattered wall pieces with imprinted outlines of human faces.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • That’s a huge target for developers to ensure their apps run smoothly through the emulation layer and to consider working on their ARM builds.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Saab Rather than overhauling the entire DAQ, the government plans to develop and integrate an onboard emulation system to replace the floppy disks.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 12 July 2024

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