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Noun
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Every decision carries weight, and in a league where the line between contender and pretender is razor-thin, there’s little room for error.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2025 -
The only saving grace for City is that there is no clear pretender to take its place as the top dog in English soccer.—
Joe Prince-Wright, NBC Sports,
NBC News,
20 Dec. 2024
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However, Macy's Santa is supposed to be the real Santa, so the department store wanted to cut the famous scene where Buddy finds out about the impostor.—
Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
2 Dec. 2024
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Nearly 600,000 reports of impostor schemes, including romance scams, were received by FTC officials this year, with losses exceeding $2.1 billion.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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One who comes to her full power when she is exiled by a charlatan, by a cruel leader.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
26 Nov. 2024
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The good, sincere members would flourish and the charlatans, the folks who over-promise to their constituents, would not.—
Gary Franks,
Boston Herald,
20 Jan. 2024
Noun
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The Democrats say Republicans are hypocrites for claiming to support law enforcement while simultaneously backing Trump’s decision to pardon more than 1,500 people who were prosecuted for the rampage, including those who attacked police officers protecting the Capitol complex.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
21 Jan. 2025
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The pardon now gives Trump and his allies the opportunity to call Biden a hypocrite and proceed having their own way with the law.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Travel fakes like this appear to be on the uptick in 2025.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA TODAY,
17 Jan. 2025
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The truth became impossible to distill: Musk's vaunted Community Notes system was like a Band-Aid on a bullet hole, as reports of water shortages — some real, some fake — exploded into partisan blame games.—
Axios,
Axios,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Counterfeiter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterfeiter. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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