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one who makes false claims of identity or expertise
don't bother to see that guy, as I've heard he's a quack with no actual training
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Recent Examples of quack
To its credit, the IPCC has elevated the debate and increased the credibility of climate science, minimizing the impact of climate quacks.
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
In the 1920s, a quack named John Brinkley became a household name by implanting goat testicles into the bodies of patients complaining of infertility and impotence.
—David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
Michael Hiltzik: Meet the most dangerous quack in America.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
But in Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ quack surgeon general, is doing precisely that.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
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Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
In the 1920s, a quack named John Brinkley became a household name by implanting goat testicles into the bodies of patients complaining of infertility and impotence.
—David Klepper, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
Michael Hiltzik: Meet the most dangerous quack in America.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
But in Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ quack surgeon general, is doing precisely that.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
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Cody Winn, 27, was indicted by a grand jury on 31 counts of telecommunications fraud and 62 counts of theft, all of which are felony charges, according to a news release from the Clermont County Sheriff's Office.Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
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Shin Ha-kyun’s deadpan performance as a supernaturally gifted corporate fraud investigator sets the tone for this unusual procedural, which follows an auditing team at the deeply corrupt JU Construction firm.Simon Abrams, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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In this essay for The Paris Review, Simon Wu recounts his experiences pining after, and eventually buying, six designer handbags: some real, some real but used, and one fake.Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 17 Dec. 2024
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The 49ers began the game with Purdy exclusively under center, and his play-action fakes to Guerendo created plenty of comfortable throws against the Bears’ defense.Kevin Fishbain, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
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The accused and accuser, for their part, might have reason to question the partiality of an investigation conducted in house and whether the inquiry is a sham done to protect the employer.Gabriella Levine, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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The three-piece set is available in silver or beige and includes two matching standard pillow shams.Ali Faccenda, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
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Ball could be that piece to turn the Rockets from pretenders to contenders.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Just this week alone, there's potential for some of these contenders to fall into the pretender pool.Chase Goodbread, The Tennessean, 20 Nov. 2024
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Tartuffe, a charismatic charlatan, insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy family, setting off a chain reaction of disruption and pandemonium.Del Mar Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 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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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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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
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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
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“Quack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quack. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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