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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
The thing was, the rapper was not there, instead sending an imposter the way that the late MF Doom used to do.
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Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 28 Aug. 2025
Attackers can easily generate convincing digital impostors that fool people and biometric systems.
—Brian Greenberg, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
There are currently imposters even pretending to represent the FTC itself.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
The term became popular thanks to the pandemic-era online game Among Us, where players have to find imposters among their crew.
—Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 28 Aug. 2025
Attackers can easily generate convincing digital impostors that fool people and biometric systems.
—Brian Greenberg, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
There are currently imposters even pretending to represent the FTC itself.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
The term became popular thanks to the pandemic-era online game Among Us, where players have to find imposters among their crew.
—Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostor
Noun
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The contenders, pretenders and everybody in between.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Adjustments will be made, and by November and December, there will be a much clearer picture of who the contenders and pretenders are.—
Mark LaSota,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Famously, the Wizard is a charlatan in every version of the text.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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No matter the party affiliation, there’ll be charlatans claiming to care, while smooth-talking their way into the homes of hard-working people who struggle.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
Noun
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His first throw was tantamount to a layup, a play-action fake to the right that sprung fullback Kyle Juszczyk wide open to the left.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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Trump has since suggested the recording is a fake.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This is a great performance in a lousy movie, sometimes the truest measure of an actor’s grace and skill.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Oct. 2025
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There’s a story about an actor called Akim Tamiroff, who played a lot of villains in fifties and sixties movies, going up and hugging the camera.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
12 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Caricatured by Honoré Daumier and his lesser followers always as a mountebank, a charlatan, a circus clown, Louis Napoleon could normalize the extent of his outrages by the seeming harmlessness of his absurdities.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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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
Noun
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As experts departed, quacks arrived.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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Medallion’s Derek Lo figures that his software can cut through the system’s redundancies, slashing the time and cost of paperwork designed to prevent quacks from practicing medicine and safeguard patients that’s spiraled into something burdensome.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Which, of course, is what happens on newspapers and that’s why all these things sound so phoney.—
Lizz Schumer,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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New Yorkers have always known exactly who Donald Trump is: a morally bankrupt phony who, despite his money and power, can’t even buy the respect of his home town.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Impostor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostor. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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