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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According to her campaign website, Bryant’s platform calls for increasing literacy, supporting teachers and staff, advocating for parental rights, forging partnerships, fostering accountability and creating equal opportunities for all students.

— Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
To me, what emerges from this swaying feels more natural than simply forging ahead with a predetermined, easily understood logic.

— Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of forging

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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

Definition of counterfeiting

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Parmar says the production initially considered faking the conditions before abandoning the idea entirely.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
The Dutch outlet Wielerflits reported receiving several complaints from women's WorldTeams about female cyclists exploiting their breast size in time trials by faking a larger cup size using padding in their bras.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of faking

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However, that process would require a lot of extra work for scrapers that currently just pull down the raw HTML source code of billions of webpages as plaintext, without going to the trouble of simulating a browser’s rendering pipeline.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
In addition to simulating the dispersal of defense production, Taiwan is throttling the island’s mobile network to show civilians what happens when internet services are disabled.

— Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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