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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
Attackers can easily generate convincing digital impostors that fool people and biometric systems.
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Brian Greenberg, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
There are currently imposters even pretending to represent the FTC itself.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
The term became popular thanks to the pandemic-era online game Among Us, where players have to find imposters among their crew.
—Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The total number of business imposter and government imposter reports filed by older adults with a loss of $10,000 or more reached 8,269 reports in 2024, up from 1,790 in 2020, according to the FTC.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Brian Greenberg, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
There are currently imposters even pretending to represent the FTC itself.
—Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
The term became popular thanks to the pandemic-era online game Among Us, where players have to find imposters among their crew.
—Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The total number of business imposter and government imposter reports filed by older adults with a loss of $10,000 or more reached 8,269 reports in 2024, up from 1,790 in 2020, according to the FTC.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostor
Noun
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The contenders, pretenders and everybody in between.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Adjustments will be made, and by November and December, there will be a much clearer picture of who the contenders and pretenders are.—
Mark LaSota,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Famously, the Wizard is a charlatan in every version of the text.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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No matter the party affiliation, there’ll be charlatans claiming to care, while smooth-talking their way into the homes of hard-working people who struggle.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
Noun
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The program, which officially launched in May, brings together brands, payment processors and e-commerce platforms like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba to develop best practices and work to get fakes off of online marketplaces.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,Paige Tortorelli,
CNBC,
19 Sep. 2025
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But with the rise of fake news and deep fakes — and pesky workplace drama — their jobs just got a whole lot harder.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The actor underwent extensive preparation, spending time in the actual locations and with the children who would appear in the film.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Sep. 2025
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What’s an example of a character who changed based on the actor’s performance in the pilot?—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
21 Sep. 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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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
Noun
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As experts departed, quacks arrived.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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Medallion’s Derek Lo figures that his software can cut through the system’s redundancies, slashing the time and cost of paperwork designed to prevent quacks from practicing medicine and safeguard patients that’s spiraled into something burdensome.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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New Yorkers have always known exactly who Donald Trump is: a morally bankrupt phony who, despite his money and power, can’t even buy the respect of his home town.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Through a mixture of internet sleuthing, preternatural good taste and a willingness to do whatever is necessary, Matthew quickly elevates his way to becoming a creative and emotional sounding board for Oliver — even as the singer’s entourage increasingly looks at him as a phony.—
William Earl,
Variety,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Impostor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostor. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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