feinting

verb

present participle of feint
as in bluffing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feinting
  1. bluffing
  2. feigning
  3. concealing
  4. disguising
  5. masking
  6. simulating
Verb
  • The plan for the stadium could still collapse; the Bears’ billionaire owners could be bluffing to secure an Arlington Heights deal.
    — Gretchen Kalwinski, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • If the prover is bluffing, the verifier will almost certainly find a flaw in the coloring after enough guesses.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 11 May 2026
Definition of bluffing
Verb
  • Patients are often described as drug seekers and accused of feigning their pain.
    — Larry Seward, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • Most artists spend enormous energy maintaining that closeness — or at least feigning it.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Definition of feigning
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  • According to police, Black entered the store wearing a ski mask and concealing a short barrel AR-style rifle under his clothing, then accused Johnson of stepping on his shoe.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
  • She was found not guilty of concealing an individual to prevent arrest, a misdemeanor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
Definition of concealing
Verb
  • But some users find clever ways to sidestep those controls, by disguising sensitive requests as role-playing games, poems or pictures, with many swapping tips and ideas online.
    — Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 18 June 2026
  • For a Black man to reinforce those same stereotypes, while disguising them as objective commentary, is even more damaging.
    — Brielle Miller, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026
Definition of disguising
Verb
  • San Francisco serves as a prime example of how the roaring AI industry is helping drive economic growth more broadly, but masking the economic inequality of lower-and-middle-income families.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 7 July 2026
  • This functional approach ensures that women are building tissue resilience and end-range strength, rather than just masking pain.
    — Ginger Gentile, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of masking
Verb
  • These tasks include simulating how molecules interact to help scientists design new drugs, discovering materials that could improve technologies such as solar panels and batteries, and advancing fields such as cryptography.
    — Aldo Romero, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
  • The renderer then uses the Neo Geo hardware to efficiently scale sprites into 16-pixel-wide strips, simulating the wall’s size and position in that column of the screen.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Definition of simulating
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