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as in mocking
to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior
a school intruder was caught trying to impersonate a teacher
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as in playing
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 impersonating
Khloe denied sending the messages and alleged that someone was impersonating her in an unrelated Snapchat account.
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Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Texts were revealed to be the main driver over the three-month period, with scammers often impersonating recruiters or HR professionals in an effort to gain the victim's trust before attempting to access personal information.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Digital risk protection company BrandShield said its research had discovered a global scam network selling fake GLP-1 weight loss drugs and other treatments by impersonating both real doctors and healthcare groups such as the American Diabetes Association and the Mayo Clinic.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the Israeli Russian diamond tycoon filed suit against him for allegedly impersonating them and unjustly enriching himself using their last name.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Law enforcement officials are addressing mounting concerns after a series of troubling cases involving criminals impersonating police officers have surfaced, raising alarms about public safety and trust in genuine authority.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Roughly $460,000 is returning to city coffers after officials became aware in July someone was impersonating Scherrer Construction, a company involved in the $38 million revamp of the public library on North King Drive.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Mathison, prosecutors note, has a serious criminal history including arrests and convictions relating to impersonating police officers, including convictions in 2008 for robbery, assault and battery, and impersonating a police officer, for which he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
One video included translations of the foreign-language background chatter during a call in which Pierogi is impersonating an elderly woman.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Texts were revealed to be the main driver over the three-month period, with scammers often impersonating recruiters or HR professionals in an effort to gain the victim's trust before attempting to access personal information.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Digital risk protection company BrandShield said its research had discovered a global scam network selling fake GLP-1 weight loss drugs and other treatments by impersonating both real doctors and healthcare groups such as the American Diabetes Association and the Mayo Clinic.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the Israeli Russian diamond tycoon filed suit against him for allegedly impersonating them and unjustly enriching himself using their last name.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Law enforcement officials are addressing mounting concerns after a series of troubling cases involving criminals impersonating police officers have surfaced, raising alarms about public safety and trust in genuine authority.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Roughly $460,000 is returning to city coffers after officials became aware in July someone was impersonating Scherrer Construction, a company involved in the $38 million revamp of the public library on North King Drive.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Mathison, prosecutors note, has a serious criminal history including arrests and convictions relating to impersonating police officers, including convictions in 2008 for robbery, assault and battery, and impersonating a police officer, for which he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
—Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
One video included translations of the foreign-language background chatter during a call in which Pierogi is impersonating an elderly woman.
—Alex Riggins, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impersonating
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Student accused of mocking Charlie Kirk death Camryn Giselle Booker, a student at Texas Tech University, was arrested on charges of assault after an altercation with students mourning the death of Charlie Kirk.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is seeking to identify and potentially discipline anyone who has made posts celebrating or mocking Kirk’s death.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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Rookie Anthony Belton, playing right tackle for an injured Zach Tom, had a holding penalty that negated a 39-yard touchdown to Jayden Reed.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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But there is something to getting in a room and all playing music together, which is what that record was born from.—
Isabela Raygoza,
Billboard,
12 Sep. 2025
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The clarinet and piano played musical lines imitating birds.—
Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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In the image, the president is also backdropped by a city beach covered with fire and smoke, seemingly imitating an active war zone.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Farrell is known for often portraying the ultimate villain on screen, having starred as Lord Percival Graves in the 2016 hit Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the Penguin in 2022's The Batman.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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Katherine LaNasa won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for portraying the show’s ever-busy charge nurse, Dana Evans.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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There are, however, key technical challenges such as generating on-demand, indistinguishable single photons with high efficiency, and the probabilistic nature of photonic gates (the electronic elements in a computer performing logic operations).—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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And that receiver, now 33, is likewise performing as if age is just another number.—
Nate Atkins,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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With more than 100,000 copies sold from her four EP releases between 2022 and 2024, Chaeyeon took on acting this summer as one of the lead roles in the web series Fresh Romance.—
Jeff Benjamin,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The resulting unrolled network consists of multiple stages, each acting like a mini-network that mimics one iteration of optimization.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Even the wraparound mural in the hotel’s lobby nods to Ojai’s past, depicting figures such as Edward Libbey, the developer of the town’s downtown area, ceramicist Beatrice Wood and spiritual figure Jiddu Krishnamurti.—
Degen Pener,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Sep. 2025
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An immersive installation, the window display was unveiled with live models dressed in key items from the Moncler Genius collection with Enninful walking and interacting with the video panels depicting the mountain environment.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Think of it as a hospital’s central nervous system for information — continuously gathering signals, interpreting them, and routing critical insights where they are needed most.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Managing and interpreting the flood of data would be impossible without machine intelligence.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Impersonating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impersonating. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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