personates

present tense third-person singular of personate
as in mocks
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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  • This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
  • After being told that Dawn is dead, Gaal mocks Demerzel for pretending to grieve, which angers the robot.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
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  • In the film, Bajpayee plays the police officer while Jim Sarbh essays the role of the killer who goes by the fictional name Carl Bhojraj.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • In the second episode, which premiered on August 6, Cartman imitates Kirk with a podcast and debates college students.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes art imitates life by skipping a generation.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
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  • That list also includes a display at the National Museum of the American Latino that White House officials felt inaccurately portrays the Texas revolution as a defense of slavery, not a war of independence from Mexico.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Blythe Danner, who portrays De Niro's onscreen wife Dina in the films, will reprise her role in the new movie, as will Polo, 56.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • The order, which, again, acts like one blanket prescription, allows pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to look at FDA approval for vaccines and not ACIP recommendations.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
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    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Personates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personates. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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