as in forged
to imitate or copy especially in order to deceive
the terrorists were able to move around the country using phonied driver's licenses
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Police said the couple spent more than $17,000 on O’Neill’s debit card and someone forged his signature on a car title after his death.—
Katie Langford,
Denver Post,
17 Apr. 2026 -
By minting a cryptographically perfect digital signature based on MD5, the attackers forged a certificate that authenticated their malicious update server.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2026
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Hundreds faked identifying information.—
Michael Kaplan,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
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Meanwhile, Austin, who is holding the couple's child onstage, has clearly been allowed to continue working at the club despite having faked his credentials as a physical therapist.—
Skyler Trepel,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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And Tae Bo was invented by a guy named Billy Blanks, also from Erie, Pennsylvania.—
Nate Sloan,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2026
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The virologist who invented the first polio vaccine.—
Marcy Thompson,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Phonied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phonied. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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