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noun (1)

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verb

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as in to counterfeit
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 to evade
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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fakery

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Recent Examples of fake
Adjective
Russia's Influence Operations in 2016, Russia conducted extensive campaigns during the presidential election, employing fake personas, troll farms, and manipulated content to inflame racial, ideological, and cultural divisions. Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025 Videos that are fake are believed to be real; videos that are real can easily be derided as fake. Andrew R. Chow, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
The Buffs bit on a zone-read fake on Delaware’s first drive as tailback Jo Silver opened the game by gashing CU for a 10-yard gain. Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025 True stories are one way to differentiate the authentic from the fake. Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
Psychological testing indicated that Brown was trying to fake symptoms of mental illness, Sutton said. Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2025 As synthetic content grows more common, what can’t be faked grows more valuable. Rod Yancy, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
Fakery that is part of the story, and fakery added on by real life. Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025 The fakery made the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 significantly worse in Greece. Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fake
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fake
Adjective
  • But because the signals are so faint, they can be drowned out by cheap jammers or replaced by counterfeit ones.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The constant threat of counterfeit goods must be faced when navigating the secondary market.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, newer synthetic drugs such as spice or bath salts may not be detected at all without specialized equipment.
    Andrew Yockey, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Yoga 9i 2-in-1 placed second in Cinebench and fourth in Geekbench, two synthetic benchmarks that test CPU performance.
    Mark Coppock, PC Magazine, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Whose idea was this, and what kinds of settler-colonial relations does this mock holdup invert?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Sweater My grandmother also purchased this 100 percent cashmere mock-neck sweater to have on hand in case the weather requires an extra layer.
    Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The addition of the Warlock-like floaty jump (sorry, there are just a lot of Destiny things) is very good, as is the base level double jump all characters have.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The patterns will suit any stripe preference, from the wider Pembroke in pine green and sandstone to the mini- and double-stripe options.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The global energy transition is forging ahead, fracturing old trade alliances and generating new forms of geopolitical leverage that all companies need to be more attuned to, JPMorgan believes.
    Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This début novel of Southern small-town life considers the hypocrisies forged in patriarchy’s crucible and the difficulty of reckoning with a father’s sins.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The study saw parents use actions to joke and pretend with kids aged 16 to 20 months old.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Scrolling on one’s phone can be a deadening experience, but here’s someone feeling, or at least pretending to feel, a genuine feeling—even if the abundance of these videos surely numbs us further.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Advertisement Synthetic dyes are generally made from petroleum and concocted in labs.
    Alice Park, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
  • To solve this problem, materials scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have concocted a new sunscreen recipe that spares the ocean’s vital microorganisms.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rather than provide food or temporary shelter for such workers in the colder months, municipalities would round them up and remove them, to save money and evade any responsibility to aid them.
    Time, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In Milwaukee, Kellner said that around 33% of bus riders have evaded paying fares in 2025 but that the agency has identified a few cost-neutral strategies targeted at reducing fare evasion down to 30% by September 2026, the same rate of evasion busses saw in 2024.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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