How to Use counterfeit in a Sentence

counterfeit

1 of 3 adjective

• The concert ticket is counterfeit.
• The victim, who is not named in the complaint, took one of the counterfeit oxycodone pills and died.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The clerk claimed the pharmacy did not stock counterfeit pills.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• So the offer was a counterfeit version of the left, which is what right-wing populism does.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• All items sent to the company are ranked one to five for how likely a piece is to be counterfeit.
  — Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• The sentiment was a lie, of course, no more sterling than a counterfeit bill.
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• The lawsuit did not state how many Rack stores allegedly sold the counterfeit items.
  — Renata Geraldo, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
• Some of the products are counterfeit and may be tainted with copper or lead.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The details of the counterfeit pills were first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Fraud There was a report of fraud March 27 where suspects used counterfeit $20 bills.
  — Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• The Times tested over a four-month period, slightly more than half proved to be counterfeit.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Many times the pills are sold as other drugs, such as oxycodone, and users are unaware the counterfeit pills contain fentanyl.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
• Fentanyl can also be made into pill form, and it can be mixed in with other counterfeit pills.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• Now, fentanyl is mixed in with just about every drug sold on the street, including cocaine and counterfeit pills.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2023
• This all comes to the chagrin of the fashion houses that are spending billions to fight counterfeit merchandise.
  — Victoria K. Hunt, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
• Some test strips sold online or through friends may be counterfeit or not work properly.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• Kelly visited for a couple of weeks, and brought with him a stack of counterfeit bonds big enough to fill a couple of shoeboxes.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
• There's also a ‘flipping effect' that is hard to duplicate or counterfeit, the DMV says.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
• Before the eclipse of 2017, counterfeit glasses flooded the marketplace for weeks.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• But what would’ve happened if he clerk never assumed the money was counterfeit?
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
• Zhang allegedly used the same IP address to open the fraudulent bank accounts and to deposit counterfeit checks.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
• One was for counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and the other was for fentanyl in powder form.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2023
• In a motion to dismiss, lawyers for Apple argued that the agreement was meant to prevent the sale of counterfeit knockoffs of its products on Amazon.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 9 June 2023
• And officials picked up Kelly in January of that same year in Texas, and charged him with possession of counterfeit bonds.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
• Much of what passes for ads on X now seems to be low-quality branding and counterfeit luxury goods.
  — Mathew Ingram, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The new notice is stronger than previous language on the department’s website, which warned that counterfeit pills were common in the country.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Law enforcement agencies have warned consumers to be on the lookout for scams related to counterfeit cups and credit card theft.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• So far, no counterfeit Wegovy pen has been reported yet.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 1 Feb. 2024
• But the trade grew in sophistication, culminating in the seizure of 500 counterfeit pens at two UK wholesalers.
  — Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024
• While living in Paraguay in 2000, Myree was arrested and charged with selling millions of dollars in counterfeit software.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022

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counterfeit

2 of 3 verb

• They were counterfeiting money in his garage.
• After all, there was no way to counterfeit what went off at the park jam.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• To counterfeit that purity would be the purest form of corruption.
  — Wyatt Mason, Esquire, 7 June 2017
• Why does counterfeit money represent a threat to the nation?
  — Dave Barry, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
• But new credit cards have converted to chip cards that are harder to counterfeit.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2018
• The company has been accused of counterfeiting the Supreme brand founded in New York.
  — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• Once North Korea counterfeited crude $100 bills to try to generate hard cash.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
• In hopes of slowing counterfeiting’s spread, Electrolux and its U.S. subsidiary Frigidaire are both working to raise its profile.
  — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2020
• There’s no proof that a foreign adversary is trying to counterfeit ballots.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• A unique code is created each time the card is used to prevent the card from being counterfeited, as can happen with cards containing a magnetic strip.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 5 June 2017
• The card has two high-definition, high-contrast images, making the card much more difficult to counterfeit, according to the DMV.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2022
• It is known in the West for counterfeiting money, human rights horrors, cyberattacks and crazy-sounding threats.
  — Bob Drogin, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• Federal prosecutors charged her in January with one count of stealing or counterfeiting keys and two counts of mail theft, charges that could have led to a prison sentence.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• All over the world, AI scientists and engineers have been working to counterfeit deepfake voice attacks and related threats.
  — Dominic David, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• The note is made of polymer and is the central bank's latest effort to make cash harder to counterfeit, following last year's launch of a similar five-pound note that showcases Winston Churchill.
  — Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2017
• More widely circulated and easy to counterfeit, their introduction led to a rash of forgery—a hanging offence.
  — R.s., The Economist, 30 July 2019
• The painting is labored and lapidary, a bravura display of the artist’s ability to counterfeit finishes ranging from gold to velvet to glass to fur, and to catch in a likeness the depths of longing, including his own.
  — Jane Kamensky, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Frontline’s examination of the tape suggested that Crossley moved the board herself so as to counterfeit the man’s response.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
• The company filed complaints with Amazon about counterfeiting last fall.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 23 June 2019
• This makes the ticket impossible to counterfeit, and tightens artist/promoter/ticketer/team/venue control over how, when and at what price a ticket can be transferred.
  — Brandon Ross, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2020
• Polymer notes are not only easier to clean than paper but also harder to counterfeit.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• There are notes counterfeited as part of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plot to introduce fake notes to Britain, which prompted the bank to withdraw high-value notes from circulation for a time.
  — R.s., The Economist, 30 July 2019
• Not counterfeit money or messages making fun or bullying a peer, but notes used in Wednesday’s attempted robbery of a Dania Beach Walgreens caught on video.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 June 2017
• And as sanctions have tightened and Pyongyang’s efforts to counterfeit $100 bills proved less successful, the North has turned to its hackers as a revenue source — often with considerable success.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Police say the interaction may have involved drugs and possibly counterfeit money, adding the shooter and DePhillips may have been familiar with each other.
  — Mike Schell, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Consumers report rip-offs ranging from sales of nonexistent vehicles, pets and products to counterfeit goods to costly free trial offers.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• The report also called on tech companies to more aggressively screen their vendors and create restrictions on products that are more likely to be counterfeited.
  — Fortune, 4 Mar. 2020
• Also, because of blockchain’s immutable record keeping, minting NFTs for their content would provide a solid and verifiable track record of their ownership of the content in a way that is near-impossible to counterfeit.
  — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Larry was counterfeiting tickets to shows booked by other promoters.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2019
• Not only does fake traffic defraud advertisers, but ads that are served to counterfeit sites rather than legitimate ones deprive publishers and other sites of ad revenue.
  — Suzanne Vranica, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018

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counterfeit

3 of 3 noun

• Beware of the many counterfeit N95s and KN95s on the market.
  — Aaron Steckelberg, Bonnie Berkowitz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2022
• Of the 34 books that Kelly bought, at least 30 were counterfeit.
  — David Streitfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• Of the 34 books that Mr. Kelly bought, at least 30 were counterfeit.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 23 June 2019
• The records do not prove whether the counterfeits caused the complaints or might have been incidental to the report.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
• My currency was no good with them, counterfeit from the start.
  — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• If counterfeits are found, they are seized and destroyed.
  — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2020
• Drugs tainted by counterfeit fentanyl are now sold on the streets.
  — Barry Meier, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• Nike lawyers allege that this shoe is a counterfeit being sold on the StockX website.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 12 May 2022
• To fight counterfeits, some food makers are turning to chips, not of the edible kind.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023
• Petzke’s job was to receive packages with the raw steroid powder and ship the counterfeit steroids off to customers, the statement said.
  — Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of our $10 bills, is a counterfeit.
  — Mark Kennedy, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2019
• While that is helpful, the incidence of counterfeit fraud is declining in the U.S., thanks to the widespread adoption of chip cards.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2019
• The works, which had been vouched for by experts, were counterfeits of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and others.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 21 May 2018
• Many of the products were black market counterfeits, the department added.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2019
• The counterfeit shoes were Air Jordans of various types.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
• Noah is a collector of Gucci ephemera, the legit and the counterfeit from across numerous eras.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• As prices have risen, counterfeits have become a problem.
  — Elin McCoy, Bloomberg.com, 27 Apr. 2020
• The $1800 stubs were confirmed counterfeits and both men were arrested.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2019
• The Super Bowl has increasingly seen counterfeit items produced and sold leading up to the game.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2020
• For years, the only Nike products sold on Amazon were gray-market items -- and counterfeits -- sold by others.
  — Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
• While companies can ask for Amazon to take down counterfeits, the onus is on retail brands to invest the manpower to find fakes.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• But honest customers can get burned by counterfeits, too.
  — Jay Greene, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• Apple said the agreement with Amazon was designed to limit the number of counterfeits sold online.
  — Reuters, CNN, 18 July 2023
• West wrote on Twitter that lip kits from her sister Kylie Jenner’s cosmetic imprint were among the trove of counterfeits.
  — Jared Gilmour, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
• One search of the premises yielded a cardboard box containing 4,000 counterfeit Quaaludes.
  — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Such brands have expressed frustration that Amazon doesn’t do enough to fight counterfeits.
  — Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
• Then, two months ago, four people in the county died in a 24-hour period after ingesting counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with the drug.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• Facebook's inability to stop counterfeits has pushed some users to a breaking point.
  — Drew Harwell, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• Using counterfeits was a typical thing in merchants, and bars.
  — Kotryna Zukauskaite, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2018
• Upon hiring, employees are trained on how to determine if a bill is a counterfeit with the help of pens that turn a fake bill a different color.
  — Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024