spoofed; spoofing; spoofs
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Verb
spoofed overly competitive parents in a mockumentary about tryouts for a national T-ball team
the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter
Noun
many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing
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Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Similar tools are already used to spoof voices based on only seconds of recorded audio.
—Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The 10 minutes that follow each three-minute hypnosis spoof are the same across all three versions.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 17 Dec. 2024
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Verb
Colbert spoofed The Office within the clip, wondering if his outtie could be Steve Carrell.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Similar tools are already used to spoof voices based on only seconds of recorded audio.
—Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
But watching it in 2025, everything about this spoof is strikingly timely.
—The New York Times, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The 10 minutes that follow each three-minute hypnosis spoof are the same across all three versions.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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