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Noun
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The contenders, pretenders and everybody in between.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025 -
Adjustments will be made, and by November and December, there will be a much clearer picture of who the contenders and pretenders are.—
Mark LaSota,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Sep. 2025
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In another film with a less happy outcome, the woman who claims to be the amnesiac’s wife is an impostor who ends up torturing him.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Oct. 2025
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McKelway, who wrote for the magazine from the nineteen-thirties to the sixties, specialized in true-crime stories, bringing to life a gallery of scamps and swindlers and impostors.—
David Grann,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Islamic eschatology warned of a deceiver who distorts perception, blurring reality.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The 1886 hotel was once an experimental hospital set up by infamous charlatan Norman Baker.—
Noreen Kompanik,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Professional historians denounced Fomenko as a charlatan, but his countless fans remained undeterred.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Oct. 2025
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Free speech hypocrite and Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr appeared on a right wing podcast on Wednesday, and was mad at one of Kimmel’s late night jokes that mentioned dead podcaster Charlie Kirk.—
James Folta
September 19,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
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Social media immediately ran to her comments, with some calling her out as a hypocrite.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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So did a disturbing AI fake of Parton on her deathbed.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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That became a clear problem for an identification credential that is expected to be universal in a world where fakes are commonplace.—
Elliot Mann,
Twin Cities,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Counterfeiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterfeiter. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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