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or imposter
as in pretender
one who makes false claims of identity or expertise
the man who claimed to be a prince turned out to be an impostor
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Recent Examples of impostor
Seeing a Santa impostor commit heinous acts amidst the backdrop of powdery white snow and the glow of Christmas lights was jarring and mostly novel for the time, though 1974's Black Christmas was, of course, ahead of that game.
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Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
The same type of evil is in the bank impostor scam.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The trope is familiar from classic narratives in which the mulatto is always living an imitation of life, an impostor on both sides of the racial divide.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
Sometimes such impostors adopt false online personas in order to gain entrance to chat groups or private servers.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
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Steven Thrash, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2024
The same type of evil is in the bank impostor scam.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The trope is familiar from classic narratives in which the mulatto is always living an imitation of life, an impostor on both sides of the racial divide.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
Sometimes such impostors adopt false online personas in order to gain entrance to chat groups or private servers.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostor
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Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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Those few Knights of the Round Table who remain are third-tier heroes, clinging to a past that is already washing out to sea, while various pretenders to the throne vye for power.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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But in Wicked, he's elevated to an even more sinister place — not merely a charlatan, but a fraud who has seized power and wants to use the magic of others to create a totalitarian world that answers to his every whim.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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After a play-action fake, Jared Goff rolled out right and found Sam LaPorta for a 20-yard touchdown.Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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These worries extend beyond potential deep fakes and foreign intervention, which have dominated recent news coverage.Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the backdrop to her work, the actress had a reputation as a free spirit, who raised her only son Luca Magnani on her own, having split from his actor father prior to his birth in 1942.Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Nov. 2024
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Rocky actor Dolph Lundgren has emerged victorious following his multi-year battle with cancer.EW.com, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
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Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
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Her favorite recording reminded me of a duck’s quack.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Witness the presidential campaign of anti-vaccine crackpot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the dangerous attack on medical science by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his quack henchman, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
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Romney had been one of Trump’s most strident critics in the 2016 election, calling him a phony and a fraud.Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
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The comment was Vance's response after Beshear had previously called him a phony and not a Kentuckian and implied heavily that nepotism was the only reason Beshear is governor.Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2024
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July 29 - Protests break out in several Venezuelan cities after Nicolas Maduro is formally declared the winner by the county’s electoral authority in a presidential race marred by accusations of electoral fraud.CNN, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
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In the exceedingly rare cases where fraud is attempted, it is caught and prosecuted.David Becker, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Impostor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostor. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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