pose as
phrasal verb
posed as; posing as; poses as
: to pretend to be (someone or something) in order to deceive people
She posed as a student to get free admission to the museum.
undercover cops posing as drug dealers
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The business daily Kommersant said the attacker, posing as a delivery person, shot the general twice in the stairway of his apartment building, wounding him in the foot and the arm.
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Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Fraudsters often pose as authentic ticket sellers.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
The web is now an ouroboros of synthetic content responding to other synthetic content, bots posing as humans and, now, humans posing as bots.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
English actor Roger Moore poses as 007, with a Lotus Esprit Turbo, on the set of the James Bond film 'For Your Eyes Only' in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1981.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Fraudsters often pose as authentic ticket sellers.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
The web is now an ouroboros of synthetic content responding to other synthetic content, bots posing as humans and, now, humans posing as bots.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
English actor Roger Moore poses as 007, with a Lotus Esprit Turbo, on the set of the James Bond film 'For Your Eyes Only' in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1981.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
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“Pose as.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pose%20as. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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