simulacra

• That's why he referred to goblins instead of dwarves or simulacra, and to the centaur instead of trying to figure out how the thing was animated. —  Man from Mundania
• Palafox could take pride in such evidence of genetic vigor, which tended to shape all of his sons into near-simulacra of himself. —  Languages of Pao The
• In addition to his enormously influential refinements of the idea of the simulacra, he also contributed greatly to the revival of the poetic qualities of theory. —  GreenCine Daily
• Mosca's seemed to be a poetics of approaching the real, in frank disagreement with the market's so-called "simulacra": a posture that turns out to be at once a logical consequence and an honest opposition to the global village's millennial offers. —  Venepoetics
• Red, more red; proliferations, multiplications of red; multitudinous simulacra of the same sickle and hammer and still more red; metonymies of a power that was deliberately and sweepingly creating a visual landscape which I could not possibly escape. —  Kafila

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