spoofed; spoofing; spoofs
Examples of spoof in a Sentence
Verb
spoofed overly competitive parents in a mockumentary about tryouts for a national T-ball team
the newspaper was spoofed by a supposedly plausible claim of a UFO encounter
Noun
many viewers thought that the spoof of a television newscast was the real thing
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Srinivas Shekar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, Russian forces have extensively used GPS jamming and spoofing to disrupt operations.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Other early influences included a stint assisting Ken Shapiro, director of 1974’s pre-SNL sketch spoof The Groove Tube.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Commercial drones are also vulnerable to spoofing, signal jamming and man-in-the-middle attacks.
—Srinivas Shekar, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
But in conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, Russian forces have extensively used GPS jamming and spoofing to disrupt operations.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
Alan Dershowitz, the famed attorney who once counted Epstein as a client, submitted a spoof cover of Vanity Fair, tweaked as Vanity Unfair, with fake headlines speculating that Epstein was Jack the Ripper and had financed the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Other early influences included a stint assisting Ken Shapiro, director of 1974’s pre-SNL sketch spoof The Groove Tube.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Spoof.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spoof. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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