feinted

past tense of feint

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • On the second interception, Simmons said Delaware bluffed as if an all-out blitz was coming before falling back into coverage and making the pick.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly feigned mental illness to gain admittance to the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island in New York (now known as Roosevelt Island) in 1887.
    Jen Rose Smith, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This week on Raw, Lynch and Rollins feigned those communication issues to allow Lynch to execute a cheap attack on Lee.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On multiple plays against the Jets, Joseph disguised a standard four-man rush by dropping an edge rusher into coverage as Strnad came flying from the weak side.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In Greece, the job of storm god passed to Zeus, though Perkwuhnos’ name persisted, half disguised, in Zeus’ thunderbolt, Keraunos.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Explosive devices can be unpredictable, easily triggered, hard to detect or camouflaged.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Clothes therefore became a clever signifier that could be displayed or concealed depending on the situation.
    Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The connections to the servers in the landing station a mile away had been installed, and a spaghetti of thick black cables lay concealed in the cube below the manhole.
    Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Ramos’s gun magazine was equipped to fit an extra bullet, and any of the shots fired could have masked the sound of the eighth shot, since all rounds were fired in less than two seconds, Azmoudeh said.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Just in the past two winters, deceptively average rain and snowfall totals statewide masked the extremely dry conditions in Southern California that contributed to devastating fires as well as flood events across the state from powerful atmospheric river events.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Feinted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feinted. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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