as in pretender
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a person who dresses or behaves in a deceptive way that is meant to impress other people
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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.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2025
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poseur
Noun
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But the Bolts don't have enough pieces to go from pretenders to contenders.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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The signing of Isak, however, might have turned Arsenal from title pretenders to genuine contenders.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
Noun
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Famously, the Wizard is a charlatan in every version of the text.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
30 Aug. 2025
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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
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Top off fall fits with cozy scarves—think last year’s iconic Acne Studio scarf (and its many imitators) that is still going strong.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The LLMs behind generative agents and chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are certainly expert imitators.—
Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The thing was, the rapper was not there, instead sending an imposter the way that the late MF Doom used to do.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
28 Aug. 2025
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The total number of business imposter and government imposter reports filed by older adults with a loss of $10,000 or more reached 8,269 reports in 2024, up from 1,790 in 2020, according to the FTC.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And hashtags like #dangerousselfie and #extremeselfie encourage copycat behavior.—
Kamala Thiagarajan,
NPR,
31 Aug. 2025
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Survivor’s debut in 2000 marked a turning point in reality television innovation; afterward, many copycats spawned, inspired by the complexity of the gameplay.—
Hannah Berman
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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Home improvement impersonators remain a persistent problem, with contractors offering to pave driveways or repair roofs, collecting large advance payments, and then disappearing.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Pay extra and you can be married by a female Elvis impersonator or enjoy a burlesque performance after your ceremony.—
Alex Schechter,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Medallion’s Derek Lo figures that his software can cut through the system’s redundancies, slashing the time and cost of paperwork designed to prevent quacks from practicing medicine and safeguard patients that’s spiraled into something burdensome.—
Amy Feldman,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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Tell that to the kids who have been hospitalized and died from measles, following quack Dr. Bobby’s Rx to avoid the shots.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
29 May 2025
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“Poseur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poseur. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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