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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He was also accused of fabricating personal credit-card reimbursements and forging fake receipts, Bonta said.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Daily News,
17 June 2026 -
The actors spent time forging the kind of intimate charge that could be felt in wordless glances between their closeted characters.—
Jen Yamato,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 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
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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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However, Parker was actually faking the pregnancy and lying to her boyfriend, Wade Griffin, his family and their friends.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
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The victim managed to escape by faking a seizure.—
Joan Murray,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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Chiribella has studied the probability of simulating closed timelike curves in a laboratory on Earth.—
Clara Moskowitz,
Scientific American,
12 June 2026
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OpenAI understood, according to the suit, that people struggling with mental health might be prone to developing unhealthy attachments to artificial intelligence that are capable of simulating empathy.—
Lauren Fichten,
CBS News,
11 June 2026
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“Phonying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phonying. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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