impostures

plural of imposture

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostures
Noun
  • Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
    Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026
  • The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Noun
  • There’s even a great scene in Jaws when Scheider is just sitting with his son and his son starts doing imitations of him at the dinner table.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • But the most memorable impressions are rarely straightforward imitations.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Along with Mary, the statue includes representations of actual students who attended the school decades ago.
    Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • The standouts, however, came in the form of hieroglyphic representations.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • For all the Court’s pretenses—all of its insistence on the rule of law, precedent, and good faith—many critics and supporters of the Roberts Court see the institution as an appendage of the Republican Party.
    Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • Garcia-Hernandez was arrested on charges of theft of an elder adult, obtaining money by false pretenses, and attempted grand theft, along with an out-of-county warrant.
    Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Our machine learning algorithm and subsequent simulations are fueled by data, expert knowledge and statistical models.
    Achim Zeileis, Fortune, 12 June 2026
  • In one of the CDC modeling’s worst-case scenarios, in which only 20 percent of Ebola cases are isolated, most simulations projected more than 20,000 cases and more than 4,000 deaths within just three months.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • Believing our conduct improper, the villagers began to make insinuations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • But whatever one thinks of Massie’s anti-Israel activism and anti-Jewish insinuations, neither was the reason he was excised.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • Experts advise evaluating robots based on actual real-world data hours and performance in uncontrolled environments, rather than staged demonstrations.
    Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The boy was mesmerized by its interactive exhibits, which required him to push buttons and pull levers to determine the outcomes of science demonstrations.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Harry arrived Saturday in a dark polo shirt and a cap, all free of any displays of loyalty.
    Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 14 June 2026
  • The fair also will feature All-Alaskan Racing Pigs and the Family Fun Zone, featuring games and interactive displays, along with 100 commercial vendors.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 14 June 2026
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“Impostures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostures. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.

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