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past tense of fake
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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 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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adjective

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Recent Examples of faked
Verb
But Jin-ho rises up from his apparently faked death. Kayti Burt, Time, 18 July 2025 On top of that, rumors are circling back around that the recent, flashy trailer Microsoft showed off for the game after years of silence may have been more or less faked and not actual gameplay. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
Rossi skated in from the right, faked a move, then fired a wrist shot top shelf. John Shipley, Twin Cities, 14 Oct. 2025 In the second quarter, Dunbar’s offense found some life with a stellar play from quarterback Marcus McDade, who faked a handoff and raced 47 yards for a touchdown while making a few defenders miss tackles. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for faked
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faked
Verb
  • Though forged with simple materials, Luise Kaish’s canvas collages do indeed evoke a sense of wonder.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The signatories said that many elements of modern international law aimed at protecting human life were originally forged in response to the Holocaust.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rest of his Republican colleagues gleefully approved the bill and have pretended ever since that their vote was the right thing to do.
    The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Tapping into his State Farm acting chops on fourth down while leading 7-0, Mahomes pretended to be frustrated with a Reid play-call before handing the ball off.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the new Indonesian horror flick The Elixir, a new herbal potion concocted by a traditional medicine doctor accidentally wakes the dead, and now all Hell is breaking loose.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike a harmless delusion, this is something that is concocted with an arc in mind, like Stacey’s relationship with TJ, Kenya Moore’s relationship with Walter Jackson her first season on RHOA, and Drew Sidora’s maybe-relationship with Dennis McKinley on this most recent season.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But this freedom evaded Russia because the Soviet system was never fully dismantled.
    Kathleen Collins, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Data from the agency estimates that 33% of bus riders evaded paying fares in 2025.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Ryan Scully scored on a 44-yard fake punt and Ethan Polloreno returned an interception for a score.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, the Pack ran a laughably bad fake-kick play — on fourth-and-17, no less.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Wednesday’s ballistic missile launches by North Korea were the first of their kind since the country on May 8 tested short-range systems that simulated nuclear counterstrikes against US and South Korean forces.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to the Stokes waves.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Also, Dylan improvised in a way the Beatles didn’t.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The scene was partly improvised, in the sense that White didn’t know what the song was going to be before cameras rolled.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s no feigned seriousness, no proclamations of honesty.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Stewart exclaimed with feigned enthusiasm.
    Judy Kurtz, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025

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