Thesaurus results for PASSED (FOR)

passed (for)

verb

past tense of pass (for)

as in pretended

to present a false appearance of in public they pass for being a loving couple, but in reality they are only friends

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The individual pretended to be from the Federal Trade Commission and told the victims to take funds out of their account and put it into a cryptocurrency kiosk, staying on the phone with them to avoid detection by bank tellers, officials said.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Built Through Adversity, Not Overnight Scaling from one property to more than 1,000 units is not a clean process, and Jake and Austin have never pretended otherwise.

— Nia Bowers, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026

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In one physical experiment, the researchers simulated a stuck screw in an electric motor.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
In a small-scale pilot of 63 fresh food items, Proxima simulated the changes to inventory flow and helped the team correct issues before launch.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026

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Control of South Korean troops was assumed by United Nations Command, and in 1978, by the Combined Forces Command (CFC), which has always been led by an American general.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
This meant that they were designed to administer large, complicated, stable programs through careful planning and centralized control and that the problems they were supposed to address were assumed to be known in advance.

— Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

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Third-quarter duel Clark and Bueckers put on a show in the third quarter, helping their teams emerge from a sluggish first half.

— James Boyd, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2026
While Belden’s former home is Victorian style, in the late 1950s a wing was put on that is modernism.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026

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