masqueraded

past tense of masquerade

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for masqueraded
Verb
  • During their 2012 interview, Guthrie awkwardly posed the question to Kardashian just as an audio cue to wrap the segment began to play.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In short, a set of notoriously challenging mathematical problems first posed by the mathematician Paul Erdős.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • During the cold open, Poehler impersonated United States Attorney General Pam Bondi.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The account that had impersonated him, after blowing up on @joma_gc, deactivated and removed all of its information from the page.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Take Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola, who pretended to be this African native descended from the Lost Tribe of Israel but was actually born in Baltimore in the Jim Crow South.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Link then called 911 and pretended not to know who Jimenez was despite being married to him for nine years, Bergida said.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In Vought’s hands, OMB has acted as a choke point for the funding that Congress approves and agencies rely on to run the government.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 20 Oct. 2025
  • My daughter acted poorly and distanced herself from one of her good friends.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The cast has remained famously close over the years, notably coming together to pay tribute to the late Bob Saget, who played core character Danny Tanner, following his death in 2022.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
  • According to his obituary, Funkhouser was born an Air Force brat in Michigan and played football in high school.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Masqueraded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masqueraded. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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