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or imposter
as in pretender
one who makes false claims of identity or expertise
the man who claimed to be a prince turned out to be an impostor
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Recent Examples of impostor
The same type of evil is in the bank impostor scam.
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Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The trope is familiar from classic narratives in which the mulatto is always living an imitation of life, an impostor on both sides of the racial divide.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
Sometimes such impostors adopt false online personas in order to gain entrance to chat groups or private servers.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
In Rankin’s short, Rankin himself plays an impostor posing as the not-so-famous Winnipeg filmmaker Matthew Rankin.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 May 2024
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Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
The trope is familiar from classic narratives in which the mulatto is always living an imitation of life, an impostor on both sides of the racial divide.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
Sometimes such impostors adopt false online personas in order to gain entrance to chat groups or private servers.
—David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
In Rankin’s short, Rankin himself plays an impostor posing as the not-so-famous Winnipeg filmmaker Matthew Rankin.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for impostor
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Other pretender brands like Stellantis’s DS, and Hyundai’s Genesis look to be fighting a losing battle.Neil Winton, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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Those few Knights of the Round Table who remain are third-tier heroes, clinging to a past that is already washing out to sea, while various pretenders to the throne vye for power.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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What’s interesting about it is that in the book, the Dragon Queen is very obviously a con woman and a charlatan right away, and she was based on someone that’s real.Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
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These worries extend beyond potential deep fakes and foreign intervention, which have dominated recent news coverage.Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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State of play: Election officials in heavily Latino states like Arizona have already expressed concerns about the use of deep fakes.Marina E. Franco (Noticias Telemundo for Axios), Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
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Magda Teter Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
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The actor told People he was diagnosed with the Stage 3 cancer in October, during treatment for an upper-respiratory infection.Justin Curto, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Gould observed that Jerry Falwell had taken up the mountebank’s mission of William Jennings Bryan.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
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Now, this pallid Color Purple epitomizes the artistic dearth of an era when a cultural mountebank like Winfrey uses race and feminist guile to cheat us of America’s most creative achievements.Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
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Her favorite recording reminded me of a duck’s quack.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Witness the presidential campaign of anti-vaccine crackpot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the dangerous attack on medical science by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his quack henchman, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
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Romney had been one of Trump’s most strident critics in the 2016 election, calling him a phony and a fraud.Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2024
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The comment was Vance's response after Beshear had previously called him a phony and not a Kentuckian and implied heavily that nepotism was the only reason Beshear is governor.Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2024
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Read Article > Elon Musk spent Election Day on X praising men, amplifying anti-immigrant conspiracies, and accusing Democrats of voter fraud.Vox Staff, Vox, 6 Nov. 2024
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But the perception of machine hacks and voter fraud alone is enough to spur violence and lead voters to question the outcome of an election.Sam Sabin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Impostor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostor. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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