impersonate
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act, masquerade (as), personate, play, pose (as)
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In 2018, he was found guilty of impersonating a federal law enforcement officer while trying to buy a motorcycle in San Leandro. — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, "The Scanner: A fake cop busted by real cops, and a real cop busted by a fake girl," 10 June 2019 But now fans think that Arya will take Jaime's face and use it to impersonate him and finally kill the Mad Queen for good, which would keep the Valonqar prophecy intact. — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, "Will Arya Take Jaime's Face and Kill Cersei on 'Game of Thrones'?," 29 Apr. 2019 Because the key was identical for all installations of the software, hackers could use the root certificate to generate forged TLS certificates that impersonated any HTTPS website on the Internet. — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, "Sennheiser discloses monumental blunder that cripples HTTPS on PCs and Macs," 28 Nov. 2018 Scott and Georgina sabotage Rufus and Lily’s wedding also there’s blackmail also Vanya impersonates a prince also Bree and Carter have a backstory? — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, "Every Single Episode of Gossip Girl, Ranked," 19 Sep. 2018 Watch out for fraudsters impersonating customer service Scammers are even targeting Amazon customers who want to reach customer service. — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, "Amazon Prime Day: Gift cards, coupons and other scams to watch for," 14 July 2018 Also, one of the final plot lines of this movie involves impersonating Swedish scientists, and that basically already sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch. — Danny Murphy, Marie Claire, "Recasted: Who Belongs in the 2019 Remake of Splash?," 13 Feb. 2019 Police have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly impersonating a police officer and attempting to detain a teenage boy outside of a school dance in Glendale, Arizona. — Isabella Gomez, Teen Vogue, "A Fake Cop Allegedly Tried to Detain a Teen Outside His Homecoming Dance," 5 Oct. 2018 Russian bots are doing a better job impersonating American teenagers on Tumblr than actual American teenagers. — Aja Romano, Vox, "Sacha Baron Cohen’s political provocations are exhausting and dangerous," 13 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'impersonate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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