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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Even as the market grows uneasy about AI infrastructure spending levels, the companies designing and making the chips are forging ahead.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 27 July 2026
Green has also been accused of forging signatures on affidavits, giving false testimony and other offenses, per the outlet.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 23 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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The raunchy stand-up comedian made his unexpected TV debut playing a junkyard and salvage business proprietor prone to get-rich-quick schemes and faking heart attacks.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
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

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It was supposed to relight its engines for a landing burn off the coast of Texas, simulating maneuvers required to return the booster back to the launch pad for recovery and reuse.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026
In their new study, the HZDR team says the effect could become especially important for adiabatic quantum computers, a class of machines widely studied for solving optimization problems, searching massive datasets, and simulating molecules.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 July 2026

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