Thesaurus results for MASQUERADED

masqueraded

verb

past tense of masquerade

as in posed

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Consider the risk posed by blanket tariffs on many drug ingredients.

— Patrick McHenry, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
For the Fed, the various economic signals have posed a quandary.

— Jeff Cox, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

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The agents also allegedly impersonated a moderator on the wiki, using an identical Cyrillic е character in the admin's username instead of the Latin one.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026
His character Ned Schneebly was supposed to be substituting — until Dewey impersonated him and stepped in.

— Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

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And while lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have questioned their legality, Republicans — who currently control both the House and the Senate — have not acted.

— Alayna Treene, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
That same encouragement carried over to the design of Blackwood’s home, too, where Haughton acted as the contractor.

— Camille Okhio, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2026

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Those emotions certainly were appropriate following Miami’s closer-than-expected 15-10 loss in Minnesota on Sunday, a game in which the defense played valiantly and Ollie Gordon reached the 100-yard mark.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
The reporting on such matters is well-established, in the stories of Wall Street Journal journalist Jeff Horwitz (played here by Jeremy Allen White) and many others.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

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