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as in to portray
to present a portrayal or performance of
interpreters at the living history museum impersonate figures who are known to have actually lived in the colonial town
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Recent Examples of impersonate
Few can match the circumstances of this particular Egg Bowl, in which Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore caught an apparent tying touchdown from Matt Corral with four seconds left and celebrated by impersonating a dog urinating in the end zone.
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Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, Brock — unnerved and fearing he was being followed by someone impersonating a police officer — called 911 and asked what to do.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
But at least one brand, Shure, has reported fake accounts on X and confirmed that real employees were impersonated to further the scheme.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024
Officials said Arnold, 41, has been charged with four felonies and a misdemeanor, including impersonating a licensed professional.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Meanwhile, Brock — unnerved and fearing he was being followed by someone impersonating a police officer — called 911 and asked what to do.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
But at least one brand, Shure, has reported fake accounts on X and confirmed that real employees were impersonated to further the scheme.
—Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024
Officials said Arnold, 41, has been charged with four felonies and a misdemeanor, including impersonating a licensed professional.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2024
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Paul Barrett: Zuckerberg Is Appeasing Trump Zuckerberg is imitating Musk to curry favor with Trump.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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However, just months after their characters shared their first kiss in 2019's in Spider-Man: Far from Home, life imitated art for the pair.Erin Clack, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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As the Tony winner took her final bow, the Greatest Showman star was there to capture it all — alongside acting legend Carol Burnett, who portrayed Foster's character in the original production of the show.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Rabe, 42, will portray mother Helena Alving, and Linklater, 48, will act as Engstrand — a carpenter hired by Helena to construct an orphanage to commemorate her late husband.Luke Chinman, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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Former President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, who have mocked each other for years going back to Trump‘s fanning of conspiracy theories about Obama’s citizenship, sat next to each other Thursday and talked for several minutes, even sharing a laugh.Bill Barrow and Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Hogan briefly appeared to promote his Real American Beer brand and was instantly and overwhelmingly booed and mocked by the enormous crowd at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Three quarterbacks who will play this weekend in the AFC postseason are among the most prodigious rushers in NFL playoff history.Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Jan. 2025
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Osaka was better than Garcia, who was playing her first match after a three-month mental health break.Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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With this capability, Schaeffler can perform returnable account matching with the help of machine learning models and automate the matching process by activating line-item matching.Forbes, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Harfouch performed his Concerto for Peace in front of an audience that included archbishops, cultural dignitaries, and influential scholars from around the world.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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Murals depicting stories from Hindu scriptures are painted on the city walls.Fox News, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
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John McPhee, in an essay published in 2009, depicted fact checking as a pursuit bordering on mania.Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
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The law has traditionally been interpreted to mean that the election is required in both initiation methods, according to education lawyers consulted by the Star-Telegram.Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
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All the models correctly interpreted parts of the drawing, according to the study—however, none of them expressed concern that the boy was about to fall.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement According to Amika Mota, who worked as a firefighter in California’s Chowchilla prison before her release in 2015, during major fires prisoners do a lot of preventive and protective work, like clearing brush or cutting gaps in the vegetation to slow the spread of flames.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
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Amid the devastating ongoing Palisades Fire, actor Sebastian Harrison did everything possible to escape.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Impersonate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impersonate. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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