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as in to portray
to present a portrayal or performance of
interpreters at the living history museum impersonate figures who are known to have actually lived in the colonial town
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Recent Examples of impersonate
For another, the Creature is played by Jacob Elordi, who, like most actors who have convincingly impersonated Elvis Presley, is not exactly the Boris Karloff of his day.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
The federal agencies who were impersonated by the scammers could not be reached because of the federal government shutdown.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
The two meet at a performance at the Wisconsin State Fair, where assorted semi-amateurs get up to impersonate legends like Elvis and Buddy Holly and Barbra Streisand.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
Mizuhara capitalized on the language barrier to keep Ohtani’s financial advisers from understanding their client, and, at times, Mizuhara even impersonated the player to the bank to prolong the fraud.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
The federal agencies who were impersonated by the scammers could not be reached because of the federal government shutdown.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
The two meet at a performance at the Wisconsin State Fair, where assorted semi-amateurs get up to impersonate legends like Elvis and Buddy Holly and Barbra Streisand.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
Mizuhara capitalized on the language barrier to keep Ohtani’s financial advisers from understanding their client, and, at times, Mizuhara even impersonated the player to the bank to prolong the fraud.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impersonate
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Art imitating life a little bit.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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That work led to the Multisensory Correlation Detector (MCD), which could imitate human responses to simple audiovisual patterns like flashes and clicks.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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At first glance, Grace resembles the type of mothers who have become a dominant cinematic presence in recent years—women portrayed as troubled about being a caregiver.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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There’s no way to trick him into portraying the right levels of fear and anxiety and sadness.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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Spicer was voted out after eight weeks of mocking from social media and the show’s judges.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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Brown said, mocking the press headlines.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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Besides Adebayo, Miami’s only other available center was two-way contract player Vlad Goldin, who arrived from a G-League assignment but did not play.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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The three titles that were won with fewer than 90 points were wrapped up with at least three games still to play, which led to an easing off in the final weeks.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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Till’s motifs swept though the ensemble, as horns, clarinets, bassoons, violin all had a chance to personate the character.—
BY LIBBY HANSSEN,
kansascity.com,
3 June 2017
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Directed by British filmmaker and frequent collaborator Nick Wickham (Madonna, Shakira) the film will chronicle the album’s release date unveiling at the intimate Troxy nightclub in London, where the goth rock legends performed the entire record for the first and only time to date.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
3 Nov. 2025
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When the immune system ages, immune cells become less able to perform crucial functions like fighting infection, destroying cancer cells and healing wounds, according to Rhodes, who is also the CEO and co-founder of Mimio Health in San Francisco.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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The heritage brand unveiled the Lee x Mighty Jaxx collection, an assortment of tees, shorts and a 9-inch figurine that depict Buddy Lee in Freeny’s signature XXRay aesthetic.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Nov. 2025
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The video depicts a surreal world where a young man begins seeing the colorful patterns and iconography, like Swedish fish and other candies, that dedicated Candy Crush players will no doubt recognize.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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In 2010, a radical Islamic group called Revolution Muslim posted what many interpreted as a death threat after an episode in which the Prophet Muhammad was shown in a bear suit.—
Peter Kiefer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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In addition, people who are prone to anger or are more likely to interpret neutral facial expressions as negative, and those with more stress and negative emotions have higher sensitivity to negative faces.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Impersonate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impersonate. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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