charlatans

plural of charlatan

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for charlatans
Noun
  • Notice how these two Third World frauds are in federal custody, not state.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In the knee-jerk world of modern football, yesterday’s world-beaters are tomorrow’s frauds.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Using such authentication increases trust in genuine images, and undermines fakes.
    Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Farid warned that the growing prevalence of AI fakes in politics could have a corrosive effect.
    NPR, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Week 9 of the college football season separated some contenders from pretenders.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The contenders, pretenders and everybody in between.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The set includes two shams and is available in eight pattern choices.
    Sheri Kaz, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This sheet set also comes with shams, all made from cotton percale for a cool, crisp sleep year-round.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As experts departed, quacks arrived.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
  • 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
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“Charlatans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/charlatans. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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