Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for knockoffs
Noun
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There are so many copycats, especially with this.—
Preezy Brown,
Rolling Stone,
24 Feb. 2026 -
Concerns about the incident and possible copycats have spread across the area.—
John Dias,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Each item passes through a multi-step process combining advanced imaging, database cross-references, and final expert verification, a hybrid system that eliminates bias, minimizes error, and safeguards agains increasingly sophisticated counterfeits.—
Tanya Benedicto Klich,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Do carve out a spot for the Mongkok market, with its colorful juxtaposition of souvenirs, food, fashions — beware of counterfeits, though — with live fish and even birds.—
Tianwei Zhang,
Footwear News,
24 Nov. 2025
Noun
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There is home decor and housewares such as colorful bottles, milk glass, old wooden crates, ironstone pitchers, crocks and jugs, and more; art; smaller size furniture items; puzzles and games; vintage reproductions; and timeworn furnishings.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
21 Feb. 2026
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The images captured by bystanders and immigration agents were reminiscent of the lynching postcards that white spectators once bought and traded — reproductions of retributive violence, tailor-made to titillate and intimidate.—
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Over centuries, the fascination with relics has of course led to abuses, with thefts, forgeries and now online sales all part of their history.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
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The Michigan Bureau of Elections detected the forgeries, determining that Brandenburg, Brown, Johnson, Craig, Markey, Dare and Malone did not meet the state qualifications to appear on the primary ballot.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Does Scream 7 want to honor the 30-year legacy of the franchise, which would explain the AI deep fakes?—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2026
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Lamont said his conservation with Porat focused on striking a balance between driving innovation and addressing concerns around algorithmic bias, deep fakes and job loss.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Single copies of Tuesday’s Globe newspaper will not be in stores, according to the Globe.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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If not quite distillation, Anthropic was recently accused of copyright violations by thousands of authors, allegedly downloading books in bulk from shadow libraries to train its AI models, rather than buying copies and scanning them itself.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Knockoffs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knockoffs. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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