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as in forged
to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive
pranksters faked giant footprints and then claimed that they had seen Bigfoot
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as in pretended
to present a false appearance of
while running for class president, Dan was not above faking friendship with people just to get their votes
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as in concocted
to perform, make, or do without preparation
if you give me the gist of the plan, I can probably fake enough for the speech
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as in evaded
to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement
the running back faked the defense by stepping to his left and then quickly cutting to the right
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Recent Examples of faked
Taylor Lorenz,
Vanity Fair,
15 Apr. 2026
These films are usually a blend of real and faked footage, with Faces of Death leaning much more toward the latter.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
Speaking to local media at the time, Allman denied the ads were his, accusing his opponent of lying and suggesting evidence submitted to regulators had been faked.
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Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2026
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Adjective
At times, this has led to erratic behavior and disastrous stunts, like a faked dog kidnapping.
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Taylor Lorenz,
Vanity Fair,
15 Apr. 2026
These films are usually a blend of real and faked footage, with Faces of Death leaning much more toward the latter.
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Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
Verb
The new Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct details the chilling 2020 murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock at the hands of Taylor Parker, who faked a pregnancy for 10 months before attempting to steal Simmons-Hancock’s unborn child.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
Speaking to local media at the time, Allman denied the ads were his, accusing his opponent of lying and suggesting evidence submitted to regulators had been faked.
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Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2026
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Authorities say the operation powered fake websites built to steal credit card numbers, passwords and other personal information.
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None of that makes the project fake.
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This is not so different from the Founders’ vision of democracy, in which a federal system with independent, coequal branches of government forces collisions of competing interests that can get contentious, even chaotic, before compromises are forged.
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Britain, Spain, Portugal, Latvia, Albania and the Nordic states have forged ahead with transitions to renewable energy, meanwhile.
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Earlier that day, Parker — who had pretended to be pregnant for 10 months — stabbed her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock 15 times, then performed a crude cesarean section, cutting the fetus out of her body with a scalpel and removing it from her uterus.
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In what prosecutors believe was a ploy to keep her boyfriend Wade Griffin, Parker pretended to be pregnant with their child.
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In the one that opens the film, Forky (Tony Hale), the googly-eyed spork, marries a plastic knife called Karen Beverly (Melissa Villaseñor), a name so perfectly unmelodious that only a kid, or an adult exceptionally good at thinking like one, could have concocted it.
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Every detail is accurate, though the picture as a whole is an invention, concocted from multiple views, locations, and studies.
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California Highway Patrol arrested a Sacramento man who police say evaded arrest and stole a patrol car, the Sacramento Police Department announced Friday afternoon.
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For years, Heuermann evaded law enforcement despite the discovery of four of the victims' remains in 2010.
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During her feigned pregnancy, Stephanie Ott, one of Griffin’s friends who had grown suspicious of Parker, called the clinic to ask about her.
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ThinkTechAct’s founder, Mahad Ibrahim, pleaded guilty to defrauding the free food reimbursement system through his feigned nonprofit group as part of the Feeding Our Future network.
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To investigate the problem, the study authors simulated the future evolution of the Solar System using modern stellar-evolution models.
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Aaru, a two-year-old AI startup, simulated all of those voters—agents built from the kind of data the company collects, like credit card purchasing history, food-delivery orders, and demographic records—and tried to predict how the votes would be cast.
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There’s everything from herbals like rhubarb and nettle to green teas and Fortnum’s own signature blends, like Wedding Breakfast or Jubilee, devised in honor of the Queen’s Diamond celebrations in 2012.
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In addition to removing the commission’s direct authority over the chief job, Houston — who devised his proposal with Council President Kevin Jenkins — sought to eliminate a selection panel that appoints four of the commission’s members, allowing the council to handpick them instead.
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“Faked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faked. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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