impersonated

verb

past tense of impersonate
1
as in mocked
to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior a school intruder was caught trying to impersonate a teacher

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2
as in played
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 impersonated Online, Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, who was trafficked to a scam center in Myanmar, impersonated a 28-year-old Singaporean woman named Ella. — ABC News, 30 June 2026 The second is listed only as a school district employee in the affidavit, who Knowles allegedly impersonated during an exam at Florida Atlantic University in August 2024. — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2026 In an effort to conceal the causes of death, Sit impersonated the owners and had the dogs cremated, according to prosecutors. — Seamus Bozeman follow, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026 The former Smiths frontman first voiced his concerns about being impersonated online in April 2025. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026 Armed with those details, Logendran contacted Rogers’ online support team and impersonated the husband, claiming he had been locked out of his work account. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026 Catholic Charities has publicly denounced representatives’ being impersonated to scam immigrants. — Albinson Linares, NBC news, 4 June 2026 While Manning has been impersonated on the show by the likes of Miles Teller and made a cameo sharing his love for Emily in Paris, his first and only time hosting spawned several memorable sketches. — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026 Later, investigators found that an adult woman had impersonated the child, who was already dead at the time, during that video call. — Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impersonated
  1. mocked
  2. played
  3. imitated
  4. performed
  5. portrayed
  6. depicted
  7. acted
  8. interpreted
Verb
  • The remaining readers are marginalized, mocked, and in many ways irrelevant.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • More than 200 people were arrested in protest marches and anti-terror raids, including academics, lawyers, and journalists; a comedian who mocked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was held at the airport.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of mocked
Verb
  • Kelce played a bully of a restaurant manager who fires a busboy (played by Bad Bunny).
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
  • She has been featured in various TV shows, including an English show called Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), and played Desdemona in Broadway’s Othello before retiring in the early 1980s, per the Walt Disney Archives.
    — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026
Definition of played
Verb
  • They were both reviled and imitated, but always watched as a pop cultural spectacle.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026
  • That never aired because it was deemed too easily imitated.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
Definition of imitated
Verb
  • Court reporters say the job can be performed only by a human being, who can intervene to ensure everyone is heard and who bears responsibility if a transcript is missing or incomplete.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Atlas performed a series of soccer moves developed using a combination of motion retargeting, reinforcement learning and whole-body control.
    — Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of performed
Verb
  • But its ability to tolerate discomfort is its strength, particularly through its most original figure—Dahl’s friend and publisher Tom Maschler, deftly portrayed by Elliot Levey.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
  • Read on to take a peek at the home of the iconic performers, who will be portrayed by Jude Law and Andrew Garfield in an upcoming Apple TV+ limited series, Wild Things, which began filming in Las Vegas earlier this year.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 9 July 2026
Definition of portrayed
Verb
  • Assessing consumer sentiment among 10,000 respondents from the 11 countries that contribute the most to the luxury sector, the consultancy depicted a complex but more focused scenario.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 7 July 2026
  • Stately Wayne Manor is depicted as a more gothic structure in most versions of the bat story.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 7 July 2026
Definition of depicted
Verb
  • While the new episodes don’t offer quite the same depth of character or adrenaline rush as the original, the show remains a sharply observed, virtuosically acted, and artfully shot study of human behavior at its ugliest.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
  • Defense attorneys maintained Anthony felt threatened and acted in self-defense after Metcalf initiated physical contact.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Definition of acted
Verb
  • Since Olmstead, that has been broadly interpreted to mean care in someone’s own home or community rather than in a nursing home or public institution.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Aid agencies caution that the figure should not be interpreted as the number of people believed to be trapped beneath the rubble.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 July 2026
Definition of interpreted

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