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Chris -- 2025-05-10
You could think of a facsimile as a simulacrum of a real, existent, fact. (But the coincidence is somewhat spoiled by ‘fact’ and ‘facsimile’ sharing a Latin root.) Examples:
I, too, would want to speak to a living, breathing human, (or fact simile thereof).
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My constitutional prerogatives are not dependent on the reading comprehension of a miss educated monkey or any reasonable fact simile to it.
a1.melvinpierre.info/page/3.aspx
Your bank’s routing number and your account number would have to be written into the 1040 or fact simile.
answers.yahoo.com › ... › Taxes › United States
A fact simile of the council order appears here and was unanimously approved by the council members present that evening.
www.standish.org/Public_Documents/Stand … _Audit.pdf
What reasonable fact simile of who you really are do you morph into in order that you not reveal who you really are to the world?
www.aliveandwellnews.com/.../spiritual_ … rt_2.shtml
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Some web pages take the next step and update the second half of the expression to “similar.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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