masquerading

present participle of masquerade

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for masquerading
Verb
  • One particularly notable viral video featured the son of a provincial government minister posing in front of a tree made from boxes of luxury labels including Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Gucci.
    Nir Kshetri, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Social media posts from his family show years of him shooting and posing with various weapons at gun ranges and shows alongside his siblings.
    Richard Hall, Time, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Khloe denied sending the messages and alleged that someone was impersonating her in an unrelated Snapchat account.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Texts were revealed to be the main driver over the three-month period, with scammers often impersonating recruiters or HR professionals in an effort to gain the victim's trust before attempting to access personal information.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These issues are very real and generally speaking there are very few, if any, magic combinations of settings to cure these problems for many players, and pretending like that’s true is either disingenuous or misinformed.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Scrolling on one’s phone can be a deadening experience, but here’s someone feeling, or at least pretending to feel, a genuine feeling—even if the abundance of these videos surely numbs us further.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With more than 100,000 copies sold from her four EP releases between 2022 and 2024, Chaeyeon took on acting this summer as one of the lead roles in the web series Fresh Romance.
    Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The resulting unrolled network consists of multiple stages, each acting like a mini-network that mimics one iteration of optimization.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Rookie Anthony Belton, playing right tackle for an injured Zach Tom, had a holding penalty that negated a 39-yard touchdown to Jayden Reed.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But there is something to getting in a room and all playing music together, which is what that record was born from.
    Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Masquerading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masquerading. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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