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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
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
Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
In order to fully get away with the crimes, Alice faked having dementia, so no one would ever suspect her.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
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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
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Gilbert, whose films frequently promote conspiracy theories about public figures, has previously produced works claiming President Barack Obama’s biological father was a communist labor organizer and suggesting Elvis Presley and Paul McCartney faked their deaths.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
In order to fully get away with the crimes, Alice faked having dementia, so no one would ever suspect her.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for faked
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Authorities made an arrest after a ransom note turned out to be fake, the sheriff said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Feb. 2026
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Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Guthrie explains experiences like this taught her faith is forged, not in moments of ease or happiness, but in the lowest points of adversity.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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The Gulf Arabs had long seen the revolutionary theocrats in Tehran as their biggest threat, and Syria’s long-standing alliance with them—forged by Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad—was a sore point with all of the other Arab leaders.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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Korea’s Kim Seon-yeong and Sweden’s Isabella Wranå pretended their brooms were air guitars.—
Zack Pierce,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Best of all, Andrew Guest and Daniel Destin Cretton’s limited series is dependent on and a showcase for its two leads in ways previous Marvel projects only pretended to be.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2026
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Paul Simon, who was headed to retirement amid debilitating hearing loss, has concocted a helpful new stage monitor setup that has him back on the road.—
BRIAN MCCOLLUM,
Freep.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Galen concocted medicines that seem strange to modern ears, such as treating ailments like inflammation with feces sprinkled with thyme to mask the odor.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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Surprisingly, among the more than 1,000 recipes published in the past 25 years of columns and cookbooks, a true, crisp and delicious almond cookie recipe had evaded me until now.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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After the fall of Tripoli, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi evaded capture for several months before being detained in November 2011 by a militia in the western Libyan city of Zintan.—
Nic Robertson,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Though shrouded in feigned care for the wrongful death of an unborn child, HB 289 and HB 663 will have horrific effects on women, their families and all medical professionals working in gynecology and obstetrics.—
Eleanor Sobel,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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Accept everything that comes after — the blow to the face as Suggs flailed at the ball, the roar from the United Center as the ball crushed through the rim, the feigned disbelief of his teammates on the bench who have seen this all too many times before.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Jan. 2026
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Canadian and American researchers simulated satellite orbits in low Earth orbit and generated a metric, the CRASH Clock, that measures the number of days before collisions start happening if collision-avoidance maneuvers stop.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Jan. 2026
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Each component is first simulated, then fabricated, and finally tested.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Jan. 2026
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The show features 52 images from the museum’s collection dating from 1860 to 1940, all of which were devised using collage or montage.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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So that problematic defense has come around, thanks to whatever Mike Brown, his coaching staff and the players have devised or re-emphasized together.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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“Faked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faked. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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