as in realistic
closely resembling the object imitated
photo-realistic portraits of birds that caused some gallerygoers to forget that they were looking at paintings
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But those who have followed this Leicester side all season will know the prospect of this particular team going on an incredible run in the final stretch of the season, combined with Wolverhampton Wanderers losing all of their fixtures, just isn’t realistic.—
Rob Tanner,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025 -
Staying realistic and transparent about risks and challenges while remaining flexible to adapt.—
John Ganem,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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With Asian elephants—its closest living relatives—facing a 22-month pregnancy and a decade-long wait for maturity, researchers needed a faster way to test their genetic edits.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Six more living hostages returned this past Saturday, but with further outrages by Hamas.—
The Editors,
National Review,
24 Feb. 2025
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The result is more naturalistic, fluent speech synthesis.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
1 Apr. 2025
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While many developers at the time settled for simple beeps and boops, Williams coaxed naturalistic environmental sounds from the silicon that modern audio designers, working with gigabytes of sampled audio, would still appreciate.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 Apr. 2025
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Prepare to be blown away by DirectX 12 Ultimate’s lifelike graphics, which bush the boundaries of what’s possible in gaming.—
StackCommerce Team (Sponsored),
PC Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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For the first time, lifelike faces were readily available for both performers and punters.—
Kyle MacNeill,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 2025
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The most delicate strokes came from the woodwinds — the musical representation of the woman’s guilt — and French horns, whose dynamic control gave the tableau three-dimensional depth.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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But in a preprint paper posted in February, mathematician Hong Wang of New York University and her colleague Joshua Zahl of the University of British Columbia finally proved the three-dimensional version of the Kakeya conjecture.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2025
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Her makeup accentuated her natural beauty: a dark pink lip and rosy cheeks.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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This created what's termed a natural experiment, in that the populations born a few weeks on either side of this data should be roughly equivalent in terms of health risks and cumulative exposure.—
John Timmer,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Photo-realistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo-realistic. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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