impostures

plural of imposture

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Noun
  • Invasion fictions tended to spring up in response to each new form of invasion panic.
    Ivan Kreilkamp, JSTOR Daily, 10 June 2026
  • The program also happens to be in line with one of the president’s convenient rhetorical fictions.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
Noun
  • The films have spawned endless imitations, parodies and spinoffs, such as this week’s Verizon commercial featuring Myers and co-stars Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Rob Lowe.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 June 2026
  • There’s even a great scene in Jaws when Scheider is just sitting with his son and his son starts doing imitations of him at the dinner table.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Both companies have until July 6 to make final representations before Nandy makes a formal decision on an intervention.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 June 2026
  • Key challenges involve achieving long-horizon consistency, developing robust representations, and acquiring crucial interactive data moats.
    Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • At school, Jin’s oldest daughter, Jane, teams up with a Black classmate, one of few, to expose their neighbors’ prejudices and pretenses.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Fernando Navarro, 53, of Minneapolis, is facing four counts of felony fraud for collecting nearly $70,000 in funds from Minnesota's medical assistance program under false pretenses.
    Riley Moser, CBS News, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • The scientists used computer simulations of earthquakes over the past 1,000 years to determine how stress accumulated along three fault segments of the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto faults.
    Velvet Wu July 3, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026
  • The cleats, now scrupulously modeled in 3D simulations, originated as sharp metal nails, the kind sold at a local hardware store.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Believing our conduct improper, the villagers began to make insinuations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • But whatever one thinks of Massie’s anti-Israel activism and anti-Jewish insinuations, neither was the reason he was excised.
    Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • The agency also plans to seek proposals for additional commercial landers, technology demonstrations, a south polar imaging mission, and a communications relay network linking lunar assets with Earth.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa met Monday night with leaders of some of the groups and asked them to conduct peaceful demonstrations.
    Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Severe thunderstorms are also forecast to develop later in the day, threatening fireworks displays and other outdoor events from the Plains to the Northeast with damaging winds, lightning and heavy downpours.
    Kyla Guilfoil, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • The broadcast will also feature coverage of fireworks displays at Disneyland Resort.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 4 July 2026
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“Impostures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impostures. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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