How to Use emulator in a Sentence

emulator

noun
  • Xbox emulator makers and users can't say they weren't warned.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Remember, this isn't an emulator, though, so the phone mode is a bit odd.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2018
  • One of the most common ways to pull this off is with an emulator called Bluestacks.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 June 2021
  • The best way to play Twilight Princess is through an emulator.
    — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Over 50 web browser games from the site’s past have been restored via an emulator and are playable right now.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 26 July 2023
  • The answer is emulators, for both classic and homebrew games.
    — Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Dhananjay says that their emulator can handle the complex models thrown their way.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Among those changes was the ability for game emulators to operate on its platforms for the first time.
    — Emily Price, PCMAG, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The Playback app isn’t just an emulator shell, either.
    — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The testing process matured, and Wilson led a team that wrote a more advanced emulator.
    — Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Somehow, the game has been ripped to PC emulators and shared on a massive scale through that format.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • That said, emulators for iPhone and PC can get the job done, too, unlike six-lane highways.
    — Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • To address this, the toolkit includes an emulator that can run a Windows game on a Mac.
    — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
  • But these new MacBook Pros will still use last year’s emulator to run some x86 apps.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 18 Oct. 2021
  • As his nation-state’s brand tumbles, Trump is trying to cling to power like all his tinpot emulators.
    — Adam Weinstein, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
  • The adversary can remove the bottom cover and attach an in-system flash emulator like the spispy to the flash chip.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2020
  • That didn’t happen — his talent was so specific that emulators were tough to come by — but his influence has cast a long shadow.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • The Backbone Pro supports emulators that are available in mobile app stores too.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • And Apple does not allow retro console emulators on the App Store.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Some sites also have extras like a dedicated lounge, retro video game emulators, and conference rooms.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • The flaw with the thruster software occurred because it was tested with a flawed hardware emulator, instead of the actual thrusters.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • This emulator can also account for how predictions will shift if parameters are merely tweaked by tiny amounts.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The remaining time is spent using an emulator to run x86 Windows apps.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 19 May 2025
  • The problem was the emulator had the wrong thruster configuration programmed in.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • First, the layout of the playing field and geometry of the shots are drafted on computer using an in-house emulator.
    — Peter Rugg, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2017
  • The problem was the emulator had the wrong thruster configuration programmed in at the time of the test, Mulholland said.
    — Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Back in 2019, a group of data miners discovered four emulator types while digging through code on the Switch.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In the research setup, the Proxmark was connected to a an Android phone that acted as a payment card emulator.
    — Lee Mathews, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Already, developers in the wild are toying with projects like a Game Boy emulator and a port of the original Doom.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The only more surprising emulator news would be if NESticle somehow rose from the dead.
    — Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 27 Apr. 2026

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