pose as

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

Examples of pose as in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Quitting alcohol was counter-revolutionary, enshittification posing as maturity, like downloading an app on attachment styles instead of just going out and getting laid. — Sarah Miller, New Yorker, 20 June 2026

This has included perpetrators pretending to administer a survey in their car, posing as a social worker giving away free baby items at their home, accompanying victims to a doctor’s appointment at a nonexistent clinic, and luring them to fake baby showers. — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2026

Border Force officer Peter Wai and Bill Yuen, a former superintendent in the Hong Kong Police, posed as police or intelligence officers to conduct surveillance and gather information about Hong Kong dissidents and pro-democracy supporters, prosecutors said. — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

In these accounts, prosecutors say Belford posed as his victim, described only as a Georgia college student, to send racist messages to student groups on the victim's campus. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 18 June 2026

Rhymes for pose as

• has
• jazz
• topaz
• whereas