Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostures
Noun
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Corporations are legal fictions — a game of pretend in which fictional entities are created, registering with the state.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026 -
As much as with any director of the most intimate personal fictions, Wiseman’s nonfictions could be laid end to end and viewed in continuity, like the story of an extraordinary life.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
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Wiseman was born in Boston, his father a prominent attorney, his mother an administrator at a children's psychiatric ward and a would-be actor who entertained her son with stories and imitations.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2026
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But Baehren and Carvalho pointed out that these behaviors, which took place rarely and in captivity, might only be imitations of human communication.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
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While the lengthy interviews with Yo are gentle and tasteful (including scenes of her in the nude), the movie’s editing in more impressionistic scenes takes on the same semi-abstract qualities as Fitch’s representations, which seem to live halfway between the material and the emotional.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
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Tokenized deposit systems refer to digital representations of customer deposits on blockchain networks, regulated within the traditional banking system.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Johnson eventually pleaded no contest to three counts of false pretenses between $1,000 and $20,000.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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She is also charged with one count of embezzlement from a vulnerable adult of between $1,000 and $20,000 and one count of false pretenses of between $1,000 and $20,000.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Computer simulations showed this was unlikely.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Feb. 2026
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Until somewhat recently, Shen said, researchers had produced just a few dozen high-quality cloud simulations — not enough to give physicists a comprehensive view of cloud behavior, and certainly not enough to teach a machine how clouds work.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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And because Epstein cultivated as many high-profile contacts as possible, that leaves a whole lot of people potentially exposed to unfounded insinuations.—
Gilad Edelman,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
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In a recent interview at the Charlotte Chess Center, Giannatos kept coming back to Kramnik and the effect the grandmaster’s insinuations seemed to have on Naroditsky’s psyche.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
18 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Protesters have repeatedly organized demonstrations at City Hall in recent months, calling for officials to deny the zoning permit that CoreCivic applied for in December after previously refusing to do so.—
Matthew Kelly
February 27,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2026
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Nationwide demonstrations erupted in response, followed by a change in Operation Metro Surge’s leadership and the eventual wind-down of the immigration enforcement operation in mid-February.—
Sarah Raza,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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That kind of devotion inspired displays of fandom that sometimes threatened the show's very existence on the air, however.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Feb. 2026
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But the time to plan is now, before cities start to draw up contracts for expensive fireworks displays and families plan summer camping trips.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Impostures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostures. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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