Thesaurus results for COUNTERFEITING

counterfeiting

verb

present participle of counterfeit

as in forging

to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive an expert at counterfeiting money

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as in pretending

to present a false appearance of managing to counterfeit a happy expression while visiting a sick friend

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Recent Examples of counterfeiting Several arrests were related to counterfeiting and selling knock-off Knicks apparel, an NYPD source said. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026 There have been a lot of studies on counterfeiting conducted with customs and police, but these have mostly focused on the scale of the problem. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 26 May 2026 And Cannon — who played with the Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs — admitted to counterfeiting in the mid-1980s after a series of bad investments and debts left him broke. — Seung Min Kim, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026 Cannon, a star with the Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders, admitted to counterfeiting in the mid-1980s. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Feb. 2026 Fraud’s Very Own Industrial Revolution Whether counterfeiting an ID or trying to trick victims into revealing their credit card details, fraud typically required high levels of human labor until very recently. — Andrew Sever, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026 Murder, kidnapping and probably counterfeiting are all still against the rules in college football. — Mac Engel january 13, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2026 As such, more will be required than a World Cup ticket, particularly because physical tickets are vulnerable to counterfeiting, while electronic devices, which may ordinarily be a way to show authentic tickets, are usually forbidden in consular buildings where interviews take place. — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025 He and Baines were imprisoned and questioned for counterfeiting coins, and Marlowe was sent home. — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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Even as the market grows uneasy about AI infrastructure spending levels, the companies designing and making the chips are forging ahead.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 July 2026
Green has also been accused of forging signatures on affidavits, giving false testimony and other offenses, per the outlet.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

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An elderly Parker County man was beaten and robbed by a woman who gained access to his home after pretending to be a police officer, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Saturday.

— Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 July 2026
One email told Angela that Lilith had contacted someone on Craigslist pretending to be her and accepting the poster’s request to fulfill a rape fantasy at their condo, per NBC News.

— Katie Mather, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

Definition of pretending

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The raunchy stand-up comedian made his unexpected TV debut playing a junkyard and salvage business proprietor prone to get-rich-quick schemes and faking heart attacks.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
By stop-starting Gvardiol — a trick that lulls defenders into a false sense of security — and then faking to go one way and then the other, Messi found space where there seemed to be none and set up Julian Alvarez for Argentina’s third goal.

— Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026

Definition of faking

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Morning light also boosts mood – light boxes simulating natural light are prescribed for morning use to treat seasonal affective disorder.

— Beth Ann Malow, The Conversation, 21 July 2026
The renderer then uses the Neo Geo hardware to efficiently scale sprites into 16-pixel-wide strips, simulating the wall’s size and position in that column of the screen.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

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Redondo, who was first elected to the House in a special election in 2023, is in line to become the House Speaker after the 2030 election, assuming he is reelected and Republicans maintain their majority in the chamber.

— Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
Security architectures must be designed to limit blast radius rather than assuming compromise will never occur.

— Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

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And, crucially, removing fuel is the only element of the natural factors affecting the spread of a wildfire that humans can control.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Many respondents also said work was affecting their physical health, relationships and ability to pursue hobbies and interests.

— Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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