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feigning

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verb

present participle of feign

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Verb
  • While maintaining a quirky and mysterious air, the show yields questions like, is a cult real if its creators are pretending but its followers aren’t?
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • June Squibb plays the titular Thelma, who gets taken in by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson Danny (Fred Hechinger) to the tune of $10,000.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Of course, the simulation itself can’t be brought to the digital marketing world (not yet, at least), but the excitement of getting consumers to engage, personalize and create dream cars with a few screen taps is no longer a distant fantasy.
    Michael Della Penna, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Next up is Blender, an open-source 3D content creation suite for modeling, animation, simulation, and compositing.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 19 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In addition to large-scale data theft, economic disruption, and intelligence breaches, quantum computers could be used for malicious purposes such as simulating and synthesizing chemical weapons or optimizing the flight trajectories of a swarm of drones.
    Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Nvidia’s Omniverse allows users to put together world scenes digitally, simulating a physical environment.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This type of insurance covers problems due to fraud, mis-indexed or defective deeds, undisclosed heirs, forgeries, and unpaid liens threatening your ownership in your home.
    Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Pennsylvania authorities previously charged Mangione with carrying firearms without a license, possessing instruments of a crime, falsely identifying himself to law enforcement, tampering with records or identification, and forgery.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • As such, even assuming that some more tariffs are put on, the potential impact on China's economy overall is likely to be limited.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In the chaos, the girls' mother evacuated with another daughter, assuming Lama and Sama were with their father.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Travel fakes like this appear to be on the uptick in 2025.
    Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • In a report released Wednesday, the office singled out 19 countries that raised concerns of possible movement of counterfeit or pirated drugs.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
  • After several investigative leads ended in dead-ends and counterfeits, a promising tip to the FBI prompted a sting operation that ended in agents recovering the fabled slippers in Minneapolis In July 2018.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Feigning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feigning. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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