Thesaurus results for PHONYING

phonying

verb

present participle of phony

as in forging

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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Internal documents published in the Supreme Court case revealed that former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ignored federal law by forging to review conditions in consultation with the State Department, according to emails between agency officials.

— Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026
In recent years, the tri-island state of Grenada has been forging a new tourism model to tackle these challenges – both improving life for citizens and the visitor experience.

— Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

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Several arrests were related to counterfeiting and selling knock-off Knicks apparel, an NYPD source said.

— Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
There have been a lot of studies on counterfeiting conducted with customs and police, but these have mostly focused on the scale of the problem.

— Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 26 May 2026

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By stop-starting Gvardiol — a trick that lulls defenders into a false sense of security — and then faking to go one way and then the other, Messi found space where there seemed to be none and set up Julian Alvarez for Argentina’s third goal.

— Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026
More to the point, the quarterly reports reflect the highest-quality, detailed information, the information the SEC requires executives to disclose on pain of facing a civil lawsuit from the agency or even criminal liability for faking data.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

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These tasks include simulating how molecules interact to help scientists design new drugs, discovering materials that could improve technologies such as solar panels and batteries, and advancing fields such as cryptography.

— Aldo Romero, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
The renderer then uses the Neo Geo hardware to efficiently scale sprites into 16-pixel-wide strips, simulating the wall’s size and position in that column of the screen.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

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