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as in mocking
to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior
a school intruder was caught trying to impersonate a teacher
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as in playing
to present a portrayal or performance of
interpreters at the living history museum impersonate figures who are known to have actually lived in the colonial town
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Recent Examples of impersonating
There have been reports of hackers using your home's location on maps to blackmail you or impersonating your boss to demand money.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The show, which runs about an hour and 40 minutes, is not Bowerman impersonating Swift.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
Keenan would write, produce, direct, and star in the show, appearing in classic skits like the Homeboy Shopping Network and impersonating Mike Tyson.
—Elliott Smith, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
The election came three months after Hortman and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their home by a man impersonating a police officer.
—Kate Plummer
matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
With or without bone spurs, Trump can’t keep impersonating a warrior while calling himself the President of PEACE.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
Khloe denied sending the messages and alleged that someone was impersonating her in an unrelated Snapchat account.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Digital risk protection company BrandShield said its research had discovered a global scam network selling fake GLP-1 weight loss drugs and other treatments by impersonating both real doctors and healthcare groups such as the American Diabetes Association and the Mayo Clinic.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the Israeli Russian diamond tycoon filed suit against him for allegedly impersonating them and unjustly enriching himself using their last name.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The show, which runs about an hour and 40 minutes, is not Bowerman impersonating Swift.
—Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
Keenan would write, produce, direct, and star in the show, appearing in classic skits like the Homeboy Shopping Network and impersonating Mike Tyson.
—Elliott Smith, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
The election came three months after Hortman and her husband, Mark, were gunned down in their home by a man impersonating a police officer.
—Kate Plummer
matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
With or without bone spurs, Trump can’t keep impersonating a warrior while calling himself the President of PEACE.
—Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 11 Sep. 2025
Khloe denied sending the messages and alleged that someone was impersonating her in an unrelated Snapchat account.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
Digital risk protection company BrandShield said its research had discovered a global scam network selling fake GLP-1 weight loss drugs and other treatments by impersonating both real doctors and healthcare groups such as the American Diabetes Association and the Mayo Clinic.
—Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
In court documents obtained by PEOPLE, the Israeli Russian diamond tycoon filed suit against him for allegedly impersonating them and unjustly enriching himself using their last name.
—Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for impersonating
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Student accused of mocking Charlie Kirk death Camryn Giselle Booker, a student at Texas Tech University, was arrested on charges of assault after an altercation with students mourning the death of Charlie Kirk.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is seeking to identify and potentially discipline anyone who has made posts celebrating or mocking Kirk’s death.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Sep. 2025
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Yet, Ruud just kept right on playing good defense — racing around Laver Cup’s black hardcourt — and somehow managing to return serves that reached 130 mph.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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He is tied with shortstop and outfielder Bill Russell (1969-1986) and Hall of Fame left fielder Zack Wheat (1909-1926) for the most years playing for the Dodgers in franchise history.—
Wayne G. McDonnell,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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The clarinet and piano played musical lines imitating birds.—
Rebecca Coffey,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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In the image, the president is also backdropped by a city beach covered with fire and smoke, seemingly imitating an active war zone.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Farrell is known for often portraying the ultimate villain on screen, having starred as Lord Percival Graves in the 2016 hit Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the Penguin in 2022's The Batman.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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Katherine LaNasa won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for portraying the show’s ever-busy charge nurse, Dana Evans.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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There are, however, key technical challenges such as generating on-demand, indistinguishable single photons with high efficiency, and the probabilistic nature of photonic gates (the electronic elements in a computer performing logic operations).—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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And that receiver, now 33, is likewise performing as if age is just another number.—
Nate Atkins,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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With more than 100,000 copies sold from her four EP releases between 2022 and 2024, Chaeyeon took on acting this summer as one of the lead roles in the web series Fresh Romance.—
Jeff Benjamin,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The resulting unrolled network consists of multiple stages, each acting like a mini-network that mimics one iteration of optimization.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Even the wraparound mural in the hotel’s lobby nods to Ojai’s past, depicting figures such as Edward Libbey, the developer of the town’s downtown area, ceramicist Beatrice Wood and spiritual figure Jiddu Krishnamurti.—
Degen Pener,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Sep. 2025
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An immersive installation, the window display was unveiled with live models dressed in key items from the Moncler Genius collection with Enninful walking and interacting with the video panels depicting the mountain environment.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Understanding how people's bodies react to baby cries could one day help identify caregivers most attuned to infant needs, or even assist new parents in better interpreting what their child is trying to communicate.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Nonverbal Awareness The art of reading and interpreting nonverbal clues has been broken and lost in these times.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Impersonating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impersonating. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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