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personated

verb

past tense of personate

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to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior likes to personate the man of the world, but he's still the small-town hick that he always was

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Richard Heathcote/Getty Images The 25-year-old was often rotated and played only 2,623 minutes across Ligue 1 and the Champions League but still managed 18 goals and 10 assists.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Sabalenka held and then played one of her best games of the match, breaking at love to tie it at 4-all.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026

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In fact, after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, which killed six and injured more than a thousand people but hardly rocked the buildings, ironworkers mocked the idea that any terrorist could ever take down those great structures.

— Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
He was criticised by Guardiola last season for not challenging Virgil van Dijk anywhere near enough at Anfield in February, and he was mocked by supporters at Old Trafford in January after he was kept quiet by Lisandro Martinez and Harry Maguire.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 10 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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Attorneys for Nicholas La Strada, the former director of election integrity under Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, portrayed their client as a loyal Republican who ran afoul of the office after raising concerns about its conduct.

— Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 15 Sep. 2026
Much of the debate has focused on how Islam is portrayed in the new standards.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2026

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The intruder might have been deterred by the couple’s two dogs — except that neither canine acted like a traditional guard dog.

— Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
On the greatest night of his greatest coaching feat, Sarkisian acted without grace or a shred of tact.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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