reasonable facsimile

noun

: a copy that is not exact but is fairly close
The house is a reasonable facsimile of his original home.
—sometimes used in a joking way
I can speak French, or at least a reasonable facsimile of French.

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That means a tax increase for every household in the country or some reasonable facsimile. — Paul Bernstein, Hartford Courant, 8 Dec. 2024 She’s seated in what looks like a reasonable facsimile of a United employee’s office. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025 Or a reasonable facsimile, as the black-and-gold scheme was more broadly available without some of the Y82 embellishments. — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 27 June 2025 There's no legal sports gambling here in California, but prediction markets have found their way into the Golden State as a reasonable facsimile. — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 8 Feb. 2026 Or, at least, it has been transformed into a reasonable facsimile of one, with the audience on the floor standing, shifting and swaying, and occasionally even dancing, in an immersive experience the likes of which Broadway has rarely if ever seen. — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 July 2023

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