Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for feinted
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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
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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
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When match officials placed a more-than-three-foot-tall trophy in the middle of the ring, Ali grabbed it and feigned running away with it.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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For an artist who now owns her entire catalog, the track lands like a victory lap disguised as a reckoning.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Goodwin claimed Reid was disguised as a delivery driver for Deliveroo, a British online food delivery company, and traveled on an e-bike during all three shootings, the outlet reported.—
Nicole Acosta,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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Explosive devices can be unpredictable, easily triggered, hard to detect or camouflaged.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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The defendants concealed the cash receipts from an accountant, who prepared their taxes, which led to the fraudulent omission of more than $17 million in gross sales from tax returns filed with the IRS.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
1 Oct. 2025
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The family travelled north from Central America for weeks, crossing rivers by night and riding concealed in smugglers’ trucks.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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The former Macy’s store has remained as-is, with the portion of the building that opens to the project’s central spine masked by an exterior facade.—
Jennifer Van Grove,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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Maybe the 3-0 start masked the truth of this team, and Sunday was a heavy dose of reality.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Feinted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feinted. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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