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Recent Examples of bogus What does the future hold when AI uses stale or bogus information to generate an answer? Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025 Her office said scammers were able to access peoples’ accounts or trick users into sending money to bogus accounts that posed as official businesses. Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025 There wasn't a bogus risk pool involved to make things easy for the Tax Court. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Personal and heartwarming, yes, but also, to put it mildly, completely bogus. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bogus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bogus
Adjective
  • The Federal Trade Commission issued an alert earlier in 2025 to encourage parents to talk to their children about the risks associated with responding to a fake text.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To make Reen feel comfortable and truly welcomed, Long’s entire extended family wore fake tattoo sleeves to the reunion.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Authorities in the United States and the United Kingdom have warned consumers that counterfeit Labubu are poorly made and may contain small, detachable parts such as eyes, hands, and feet, which present a serious choking hazard to young children.
    Haicen Yang, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • An exam by an independent certified jeweler confirmed the watches were counterfeit.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Representatives for James have called the fraud claims made against her politically motivated and false.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • On the next play, Taylor was called for a false-start penalty.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Subtle bits of faux wheat give it additional texture, and there’s an attached loop in the back for easy hanging.
    Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Pair the duo with fairy lights, a thin linen runner, and more faux foliage to create a stunning seasonal scene.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • He’s charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of a forged instrument.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The subdials are in blue, yellow and red in honor of the Colombian flag, and the forged carbon tachymeter bezel is framed with a ring of rose gold.
    Nancy Olson, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • The conversations, of course, were mock for journalistic purposes.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The piping adds an athletic flair to the mock-neck sweater and sweatpant set, and small slits on the front of the hems add extra interest.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The drugs included protonitazene and metonitazene, two synthetic opioids with respective potencies of 100 and 200 times more powerful than morphine, court documents say.
    David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • By transforming ethanol into synthetic oils that can serve as HEFA feedstocks, the company’s technology could diversify and strengthen SAF production.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Stories abound in folklore of the unnatural taking the place of the natural.
    Adam Verner September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Changing these molecules would create an unnatural mirror image of a cell, as different as your right hand from your left.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Bogus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bogus. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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