Thesaurus results for PERSONATES

personates

verb

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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Ultron bristles at the client’s obvious power over Jocasta and mocks him as melodramatic and desperate.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
Continue reading … PULLING THE STRINGS — Bruce Blakeman mocks Hochul as 'puppet' of socialist Mamdani.

— , FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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Three plays later, Austin Simmons hit Cayden Lee, who got blasted by a Longhorn defender and fumbled to set up the game-sealing Texas TD.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 Nov. 2026
Pitre plays a key role in the as the nickel cornerback, and his versatility at the position is somewhat irreplaceable in DeMeco Ryans’ scheme.

— Peter Warren, Houston Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2026

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Secure your email account before someone impersonates you A strong, unique password helps protect your email.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
When his detective twin brother, James, disappears, Ludwig impersonates him to help his sister-in-law, Lucy (Anna Maxwell Martin), solve the mystery.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of impersonates

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After a long chase Rama is able to kill the deer with his arrow, but, before dying, Maricha imitates Rama’s voice and cries out for Sita and Lakshmana.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Constantin Brâncuși’s marble-and-limestone sculpture L’oiseau (1923/1947), for example, commands the space, while Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2022 photograph tree filling window imitates an open window in a closed space.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of imitates

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Ben Rosenfield portrays Steve Korman, with Molly Ephraim also part of the ensemble cast.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2026
Dominic West portrays Doc McGhee, the band’s renowned music manager, while David Kross plays Andrej, the Scorpions’ imprisoned friend on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of portrays

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On the one hand, Russian literature acts as a means of framing both his reporting and his personal life.

— Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
Earth's ozone layer acts as a planetary sunscreen, shielding humans, animals, and plants from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

— Dan Peck, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026

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