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Recent Examples of impostor After Elon Musk purchased Twitter and swiftly removed all content moderation, a substantial exodus flowed to weak impostors like BlueSky, Threads, and Mastodon. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025 However, Macy's Santa is supposed to be the real Santa, so the department store wanted to cut the famous scene where Buddy finds out about the impostor. Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 2 Dec. 2024 Nearly 600,000 reports of impostor schemes, including romance scams, were received by FTC officials this year, with losses exceeding $2.1 billion. Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024 But don’t be fooled — what might seem like a clandestine cannabis crop is often just a harmless impostor. Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 25 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for impostor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostor
Noun
  • The bot will see you now: Therapists in the U.S. are getting ready for a battle with A.I. pretenders.
    Natasha Frost, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Without a bit more heart and soul, the spinoff is just a pretender in a nicely tailored suit.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • No, the danger is what those charlatans exploit, namely our vulnerability to the narrative of natural healing, the irresistible allure of conquering cancer with a simple, intuitive approach that lies entirely within our power, no chemo or surgery required.
    Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • There was too much history for anyone to dismantle, let alone a charlatan like Hitler.
    Luke Berryman, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This is a cruder example of how artificial intelligence is being used to create deep fakes.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • As a bonus, this reusable fake is a fun prop to keep around for make-believe health care provider visits.
    Kimberly Stoney, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But the multi-hyphenate has also been making her Broadway rounds, supporting her fellow actors between her own projects.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The British actor is back as the face of the timeless clothing capsule for the fourth consecutive season.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With tariffs on pharmaceuticals, the mountebank of Mar-A-Lago wants to punish a small democracy of 5.3 million people that for the past 60 years has worked its way into the top table of drug research and production: Ireland.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
Noun
  • Famous athlete revealed as Fuzzy Peas on Masked Singer while Ken Jeong shocks with Lord Farquaad look on wild Shrek Night With a final dramatic flourish of his cape and a quack, Lucky Duck departed, and it was revealed that Coral would be joining Paparazzo in the final six.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Milla — a young woman who feels disillusioned by doctors that treat her like a recalcitrant child, directing even conversations about her treatment to her father instead of her — finds false security in quacks selling enemas and juice cleanses.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • For a Gen X-er raised on movies that skewered phonies and wannabes, the thought of being a poser was, in the end, far more offensive to his sensibilities than being potentially bland.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The answer is important because being a phony is hard work.
    LaRae Quy, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But this would come as the result of a cutback in government spending that is currently categorized by Trump Administration officials as either waste, fraud, or non-essential in nature.
    Sal Gilbertie, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud after lying to Theranos investors about her blood testing technology's reliability and was later sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2022.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025

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“Impostor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostor. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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