How to Use faked in a Sentence

faked

adjective
  • The faked Trackmania speedruns have now been wiped from the record.
    Stuart Ritchie, The Atlantic, 2 July 2021
  • One acknowledged in the project’s white paper is to strip the CAI tags from a file and add faked ones.
    Tom Simonite, Wired, 13 Aug. 2020
  • In fact, honey is one of the most faked foods found in our food supply today.
    Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The catch: the $300 was never sent and appeared only in faked screenshots or emails.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The faked clip that appeared to show Ukrainian refugees burning down their German hosts’ house in Wulfen was one of those.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The sites showed images of the faked certificates, including the QR codes, which allowed the researchers to check them.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Instead, Modigliani is incandescent — one of 20th century art’s lodestars — and one of the most faked artists of all time.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And five years after the first deepfakes started to appear, the first laws are just emerging that criminalize the sharing of faked images.
    Matt Burgess, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The motion onstage is so effectively managed that the logic of Mordred’s plot (a faked letter in lieu of spellcasting) goes down easy.
    Vulture, 13 Apr. 2023
  • An investigation later found the five were local villagers killed in a faked firefight.
    Aijaz Hussain, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Costello also said the faked records were found in electronic monitoring programs in Cook and DuPage counties.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Numerous accounts promoted a faked document saying that the White House had approved $8 billion in aid to Israel.
    Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2023
  • Cherkasov was also suspected of planning to use his faked Brazilian heritage to seek Portuguese citizenship, granting him a foothold in the European Union.
    Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Numerous accounts promoted a faked document saying the White House had approved $8 billion in aid to Israel.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2023
  • In the Northern District of Georgia, critics say prosecutors have focused on schemes that may be easy to spot because of faked records or extravagant purchases.
    Johnny Edwards, ajc, 20 Jan. 2022
  • To make their plan seem legitimate, the team forged documents, created faked signatures, set up fake e-mail accounts and used different bank accounts, according to the plea agreement.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Experts have been warning for months that the 2024 elections will be made more complicated and dangerous thanks to generative AI, which allows more realistic faked audio, video and imagery.
    Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Nearly 40 years after outré comedian Andy Kaufman’s death from cancer, there remain fans who are certain that a faked demise was Kaufman’s most ambitious and committed hoax.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But the plots began to unravel in September when, with the help of cooperating witnesses, federal agents concocted a plan that included creating a faked crime scene.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • At a certain point, Tom even convincingly disguises himself as the painter, authenticates the faked canvases, gives interviews to the press and reassures a suspicious collector.
    New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The scenarios are not difficult to imagine; a faked video showing a politician in a compromising position; faked audio of a world leader discussing sensitive information.
    Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Despite images of the faked document appearing on social media, it was never published on the White House website or in the government's Federal Register of presidential documents.
    Ben Goggin, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The faked document first started appearing on social media accounts Saturday morning.
    Ben Goggin, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
  • The case’s evidence outlined Ms. Holmes’s role in faked demonstrations, falsified validation reports, misleading claims about contracts, and overstated financials at Theranos.
    New York Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The machine system’s superiority is attributable to its ability to differentiate the dynamics of genuine expressions from faked expressions.
    Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2017

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