poseur

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Recent Examples of poseur There’s also a conspiracy that catches fire on social media to make Superman look like a poseur. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for poseur
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poseur
Noun
  • The contenders, pretenders and everybody in between.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Adjustments will be made, and by November and December, there will be a much clearer picture of who the contenders and pretenders are.
    Mark LaSota, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Famously, the Wizard is a charlatan in every version of the text.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
  • No matter the party affiliation, there’ll be charlatans claiming to care, while smooth-talking their way into the homes of hard-working people who struggle.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • In several other 2025 cases, ICE agent imitators have been seeking social media clout or making a political point.
    Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Over the past two decades, China has risen from imitator to innovator, advancing rapidly in new energy, robotics, batteries and drones—and related military power.
    Rebecca A. Fannin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That’s until their cover in California Schemin’ as rapping imposters was blown and the emotional strain of denying their Scottishness and their fractured friendship revealed itself.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Survivor began this season by introducing its biggest character through his enthusiasm, his story, and a lighthearted copycat routine.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This restaurant copycat is easy to prepare, and incredibly rich and delicious.
    Christine Fiorentino, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Caricatured by Honoré Daumier and his lesser followers always as a mountebank, a charlatan, a circus clown, Louis Napoleon could normalize the extent of his outrages by the seeming harmlessness of his absurdities.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • With tariffs on pharmaceuticals, the mountebank of Mar-A-Lago wants to punish a small democracy of 5.3 million people that for the past 60 years has worked its way into the top table of drug research and production: Ireland.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The rash of impersonator incidents comes as Democratic lawmakers push back against the masking practice.
    Allison Gordon, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • If the impersonators do not currently have the customer's PIN, the accomplice or impersonator will use social engineering techniques to obtain this from the customer.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Poseur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poseur. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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