How to Use counterfeit in a Sentence

counterfeit

1 of 3 adjective

• The concert ticket is counterfeit.
• The victim, who is not named in the complaint, took one of the counterfeit oxycodone pills and died.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The clerk claimed the pharmacy did not stock counterfeit pills.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• So the offer was a counterfeit version of the left, which is what right-wing populism does.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• All items sent to the company are ranked one to five for how likely a piece is to be counterfeit.
  — Marisa Meltzer, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• The sentiment was a lie, of course, no more sterling than a counterfeit bill.
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• The lawsuit did not state how many Rack stores allegedly sold the counterfeit items.
  — Renata Geraldo, Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2023
• Some of the products are counterfeit and may be tainted with copper or lead.
  — Terence McGinley, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The details of the counterfeit pills were first reported by the Los Angeles Times.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2023
• Fraud There was a report of fraud March 27 where suspects used counterfeit $20 bills.
  — Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2023
• The Times tested over a four-month period, slightly more than half proved to be counterfeit.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Many times the pills are sold as other drugs, such as oxycodone, and users are unaware the counterfeit pills contain fentanyl.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
• Fentanyl can also be made into pill form, and it can be mixed in with other counterfeit pills.
  — Katia Hetter, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• Now, fentanyl is mixed in with just about every drug sold on the street, including cocaine and counterfeit pills.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 1 Feb. 2023
• This all comes to the chagrin of the fashion houses that are spending billions to fight counterfeit merchandise.
  — Victoria K. Hunt, Robb Report, 4 May 2023
• Some test strips sold online or through friends may be counterfeit or not work properly.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2023
• Kelly visited for a couple of weeks, and brought with him a stack of counterfeit bonds big enough to fill a couple of shoeboxes.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
• There's also a ‘flipping effect' that is hard to duplicate or counterfeit, the DMV says.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2023
• Before the eclipse of 2017, counterfeit glasses flooded the marketplace for weeks.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• But what would’ve happened if he clerk never assumed the money was counterfeit?
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 28 Aug. 2023
• Zhang allegedly used the same IP address to open the fraudulent bank accounts and to deposit counterfeit checks.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2023
• One was for counterfeit pills containing fentanyl and the other was for fentanyl in powder form.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2023
• In a motion to dismiss, lawyers for Apple argued that the agreement was meant to prevent the sale of counterfeit knockoffs of its products on Amazon.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 9 June 2023
• And officials picked up Kelly in January of that same year in Texas, and charged him with possession of counterfeit bonds.
  — Sean Williams, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2023
• Much of what passes for ads on X now seems to be low-quality branding and counterfeit luxury goods.
  — Mathew Ingram, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• The new notice is stronger than previous language on the department’s website, which warned that counterfeit pills were common in the country.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Law enforcement agencies have warned consumers to be on the lookout for scams related to counterfeit cups and credit card theft.
  — Gabriel San Román, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• So far, no counterfeit Wegovy pen has been reported yet.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 1 Feb. 2024
• But the trade grew in sophistication, culminating in the seizure of 500 counterfeit pens at two UK wholesalers.
  — Ashleigh Furlong, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024
• While living in Paraguay in 2000, Myree was arrested and charged with selling millions of dollars in counterfeit software.
  — Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2022

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counterfeit

2 of 3 verb

• They were counterfeiting money in his garage.
• After all, there was no way to counterfeit what went off at the park jam.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023
• To counterfeit that purity would be the purest form of corruption.
  — Wyatt Mason, Esquire, 7 June 2017
• Why does counterfeit money represent a threat to the nation?
  — Dave Barry, miamiherald, 3 June 2018
• But new credit cards have converted to chip cards that are harder to counterfeit.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2018
• The company has been accused of counterfeiting the Supreme brand founded in New York.
  — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 28 June 2019
• Once North Korea counterfeited crude $100 bills to try to generate hard cash.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Oct. 2017
• In hopes of slowing counterfeiting’s spread, Electrolux and its U.S. subsidiary Frigidaire are both working to raise its profile.
  — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2020
• There’s no proof that a foreign adversary is trying to counterfeit ballots.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• A unique code is created each time the card is used to prevent the card from being counterfeited, as can happen with cards containing a magnetic strip.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 5 June 2017
• The card has two high-definition, high-contrast images, making the card much more difficult to counterfeit, according to the DMV.
  — Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2022
• It is known in the West for counterfeiting money, human rights horrors, cyberattacks and crazy-sounding threats.
  — Bob Drogin, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
• Federal prosecutors charged her in January with one count of stealing or counterfeiting keys and two counts of mail theft, charges that could have led to a prison sentence.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• All over the world, AI scientists and engineers have been working to counterfeit deepfake voice attacks and related threats.
  — Dominic David, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• The note is made of polymer and is the central bank's latest effort to make cash harder to counterfeit, following last year's launch of a similar five-pound note that showcases Winston Churchill.
  — Pan Pylas, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2017
• More widely circulated and easy to counterfeit, their introduction led to a rash of forgery—a hanging offence.
  — R.s., The Economist, 30 July 2019
• The painting is labored and lapidary, a bravura display of the artist’s ability to counterfeit finishes ranging from gold to velvet to glass to fur, and to catch in a likeness the depths of longing, including his own.
  — Jane Kamensky, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
• Frontline’s examination of the tape suggested that Crossley moved the board herself so as to counterfeit the man’s response.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 11 Apr. 2017
• The company filed complaints with Amazon about counterfeiting last fall.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 23 June 2019
• This makes the ticket impossible to counterfeit, and tightens artist/promoter/ticketer/team/venue control over how, when and at what price a ticket can be transferred.
  — Brandon Ross, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2020
• Polymer notes are not only easier to clean than paper but also harder to counterfeit.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• There are notes counterfeited as part of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi plot to introduce fake notes to Britain, which prompted the bank to withdraw high-value notes from circulation for a time.
  — R.s., The Economist, 30 July 2019
• Not counterfeit money or messages making fun or bullying a peer, but notes used in Wednesday’s attempted robbery of a Dania Beach Walgreens caught on video.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 June 2017
• And as sanctions have tightened and Pyongyang’s efforts to counterfeit $100 bills proved less successful, the North has turned to its hackers as a revenue source — often with considerable success.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Police say the interaction may have involved drugs and possibly counterfeit money, adding the shooter and DePhillips may have been familiar with each other.
  — Mike Schell, Cincinnati.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Consumers report rip-offs ranging from sales of nonexistent vehicles, pets and products to counterfeit goods to costly free trial offers.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• The report also called on tech companies to more aggressively screen their vendors and create restrictions on products that are more likely to be counterfeited.
  — Fortune, 4 Mar. 2020
• Also, because of blockchain’s immutable record keeping, minting NFTs for their content would provide a solid and verifiable track record of their ownership of the content in a way that is near-impossible to counterfeit.
  — Josh Wilson, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2023
• Larry was counterfeiting tickets to shows booked by other promoters.
  — oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2019
• Not only does fake traffic defraud advertisers, but ads that are served to counterfeit sites rather than legitimate ones deprive publishers and other sites of ad revenue.
  — Suzanne Vranica, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018

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counterfeit

3 of 3 noun

• Beware of the many counterfeit N95s and KN95s on the market.
  — Aaron Steckelberg, Bonnie Berkowitz, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2022
• Of the 34 books that Kelly bought, at least 30 were counterfeit.
  — David Streitfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• Of the 34 books that Mr. Kelly bought, at least 30 were counterfeit.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 23 June 2019
• The records do not prove whether the counterfeits caused the complaints or might have been incidental to the report.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2023
• My currency was no good with them, counterfeit from the start.
  — Christine Sneed, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• If counterfeits are found, they are seized and destroyed.
  — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2020
• Drugs tainted by counterfeit fentanyl are now sold on the streets.
  — Barry Meier, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• Nike lawyers allege that this shoe is a counterfeit being sold on the StockX website.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 12 May 2022
• To fight counterfeits, some food makers are turning to chips, not of the edible kind.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023
• Petzke’s job was to receive packages with the raw steroid powder and ship the counterfeit steroids off to customers, the statement said.
  — Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2018
• Many academics argue the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the star of our $10 bills, is a counterfeit.
  — Mark Kennedy, The Seattle Times, 4 Feb. 2019
• While that is helpful, the incidence of counterfeit fraud is declining in the U.S., thanks to the widespread adoption of chip cards.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2019
• The works, which had been vouched for by experts, were counterfeits of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and others.
  — John Hooper, WSJ, 21 May 2018
• Many of the products were black market counterfeits, the department added.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2019
• The counterfeit shoes were Air Jordans of various types.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2019
• Noah is a collector of Gucci ephemera, the legit and the counterfeit from across numerous eras.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• As prices have risen, counterfeits have become a problem.
  — Elin McCoy, Bloomberg.com, 27 Apr. 2020
• The $1800 stubs were confirmed counterfeits and both men were arrested.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2019
• The Super Bowl has increasingly seen counterfeit items produced and sold leading up to the game.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 30 Jan. 2020
• For years, the only Nike products sold on Amazon were gray-market items -- and counterfeits -- sold by others.
  — Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
• While companies can ask for Amazon to take down counterfeits, the onus is on retail brands to invest the manpower to find fakes.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• But honest customers can get burned by counterfeits, too.
  — Jay Greene, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• Apple said the agreement with Amazon was designed to limit the number of counterfeits sold online.
  — Reuters, CNN, 18 July 2023
• West wrote on Twitter that lip kits from her sister Kylie Jenner’s cosmetic imprint were among the trove of counterfeits.
  — Jared Gilmour, sacbee, 13 Apr. 2018
• One search of the premises yielded a cardboard box containing 4,000 counterfeit Quaaludes.
  — Mike Sager, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2021
• Such brands have expressed frustration that Amazon doesn’t do enough to fight counterfeits.
  — Fortune, 13 Nov. 2019
• Then, two months ago, four people in the county died in a 24-hour period after ingesting counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with the drug.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2019
• Facebook's inability to stop counterfeits has pushed some users to a breaking point.
  — Drew Harwell, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
• But the most elaborate counterfeit was a bottle of fake Vyvanse sold in Puerto Vallarta.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024
• By June, the Times team had bought and tested more than 50 pills from 29 pharmacies in eight cities, finding counterfeits for sale in stores from coast to coast, mostly in areas that attract travelers.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 1 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024