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or imposter
as in pretender
one who makes false claims of identity or expertise
the man who claimed to be a prince turned out to be an impostor
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Recent Examples of impostor
However, sometimes there’s an impostor among us, and one celebrity who always falls victim to AI deepfakes is Katy Perry.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 May 2025
Fortunately, plant enthusiasts quickly chimed in to identify the impostor.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory.
—Brett Kelman, Miami Herald, 1 May 2025
Mike Hawkins Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory.
—Brett Kelman, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 May 2025
Fortunately, plant enthusiasts quickly chimed in to identify the impostor.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory.
—Brett Kelman, Miami Herald, 1 May 2025
Mike Hawkins Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory.
—Brett Kelman, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostor
Noun
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Looking at the historical sample of data, the goal was to develop a set of rules that helped distinguish the genuine contenders from the pretenders and to narrow down as few actual champions as possible while simultaneously eliminating as many of the wannabes.—
Neil Paine,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
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But for those trying to fill out their brackets this week, here are the Big Ten’s contenders and pretenders heading into March Madness.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Caricatured by Honoré Daumier and his lesser followers always as a mountebank, a charlatan, a circus clown, Louis Napoleon could normalize the extent of his outrages by the seeming harmlessness of his absurdities.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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Where to watch Saw: Amazon Prime Video (to rent) 03 of 10 Saw X (2023) John Kramer ventures to Mexico for an experimental cancer treatment administered by money-hungry charlatans in this slick but not particularly inventive revival sequel, which takes place between the events of Saw and Saw II.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
10 May 2025
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Spotting The Scam: What Deepfakes Still Get Wrong Even the smartest fakes leave fingerprints.—
Anastasia Paruntseva,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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When fakes are passed off as the real thing, of course that would lead to murder.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2025
Noun
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The connection between the two actors as performers happened straight away.—
Mark Olsen,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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Synthesia, this year, took steps to compensate the actors who work with it beyond just cash, announcing a $1 million equity fund that gives company shares to the actors who work to create AI avatars.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
26 June 2025
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Caricatured by Honoré Daumier and his lesser followers always as a mountebank, a charlatan, a circus clown, Louis Napoleon could normalize the extent of his outrages by the seeming harmlessness of his absurdities.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
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With tariffs on pharmaceuticals, the mountebank of Mar-A-Lago wants to punish a small democracy of 5.3 million people that for the past 60 years has worked its way into the top table of drug research and production: Ireland.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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Tell that to the kids who have been hospitalized and died from measles, following quack Dr. Bobby’s Rx to avoid the shots.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2025
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The Spare Room by Helen Garner This is a book about a woman, Helen, who decides to let her old friend, Nicola, who is dying of cancer, come and stay with her in Melbourne while Nicola sees a local quack doctor.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
21 May 2025
Noun
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For a Gen X-er raised on movies that skewered phonies and wannabes, the thought of being a poser was, in the end, far more offensive to his sensibilities than being potentially bland.—
Rachel Syme,
The New Yorker,
23 Dec. 2024
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The answer is important because being a phony is hard work.—
LaRae Quy,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Criminals that are able to gain access to passwords put up for sale on the dark web are able to use them for identify theft, fraud, and even blackmail.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The truth is that almost all the fraud, waste and abuse in the health care system comes from the billing and payment processes and skyrocketing prices, not from people who rely on Medicaid for essential care.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 June 2025
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